MySQL forgot password solution in Linux

1. Close the MySQL service, see many of the online said to use this command/etc/init.d/mysqld restart, but I did not find mysqld file in the Init.d folder, so in the execution of this command has been an error, and then replaced by sudo Service MySQL stop to close MySQL services successfully

2. Start MySQL in Safe mode view online There are two ways to say it. The first is to use the command directly

Mysqld_safe--skip-grant-tables &

But I also gave an error when I used this command.

Second method (possible), modify the MySQL configuration file

# VI/ETC/MY.CNF
Add a sentence to the paragraph in [mysqld]: Skip-grant-tables
For example:
[Mysqld]
Datadir=/var/lib/mysql
Socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Skip-grant-tables

3. Start the MySQL service

The command I used was: sudo service MySQL start

4. Change the root user password

At this point you can log into the data directly in MySQL using the command line, or you can use the tool navicat

Using the Navicat tool is more convenient, I use the tool directly

配置好上面的数据连接，密码框中不用填写。
进入数据库后，打开mysql数据库查看user表中的数据


查看你的root账户的密码存的字段名称
在网上很多用的都是

UPDATE User SET = ' New-password ' WHERE User = ' Root '

 这个sql语句，但是我发现我的密码存的不是Password字段中，所以最开始执行这个语句的时候一直都失败，打开表中一看这个密码是存在
authentication_string 字段中的，所以执行的sql语句换成

UPDATE 'userset authentication_string=PASSWORD (' own password ')  where 'user'='root'  

The password () in this statement is an encryption method of the data.

5. Remove the skip-grant-tables in the MySQL configuration of the second step (be sure to go, or let all the people without the password can directly into the database), restore to the original appearance.

6. Restart the MySQL service with the command: sudo service mysql restart

MySQL forgot password solution in Linux