Mark Brown's Blog

One of the problems I ran into when I started playing with MySql was trying to figure out how to reset the root password.

one night I was dinking around in MySql, and wound up locking myself out. I searched high and low for someway to reset that password, found a couple of hints at how, but couldn't ever get it reset. It was on a new install of Ubuntu and Mysql, so I removed MySql, reinstalled it, and I still couldn't get in. So, I wound up reinstalling Ubuntu, then MySql to get it to work.

Today I was perusing the mysql newbie from and saw this post. http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?10,149291,149311#msg-149311

Boy that would have been helpful about 3 weeks ago, so hopefully someone here might find it useful now!

Have a good weekend!