How to Reset Root Password in MySQL 8.0 | Linux Today

How to Reset Root Password in MySQL 8.0

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Mar 3, 2019

In an unfortunate event of forgetting or losing your MySQL root password, you will surely need a way to recover it somehow. What we need to know is that the password is stored in the users table. This means that we need to figure out a way to bypass the MySQL authentication, so we can update the password record.

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