This article shows you how to set, change, and recover secure passwords for your MySQL root account, so you'll never be at a loss.

mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.77, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.1 I need to work on MySQL about once every six months, so it's always an exciting re-learning experience [root@server ...

But the password of the "root" user on the old-server does not work on the new server. <BR><BR>I lost my superuser access to MySQL!

A fresh installation of the XAMPP Control Panel on a Windows device doesn’t hold the root password for MySQL PHPMyAdmin. In such a case, it could be easily accessible to everyone and that ...

Security experts have identified some 879,046 servers vulnerable to a brute force flaw that undermines password controls in MySQL and MariaDB systems.