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!

How to change phpMyAdmin password on XAMPP To change the phpMyAdmin password on XAMPP, you first need to launch the XAMPP Control Panel. Once it opens, click on the Admin button for MySQL.

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