How to Recover MySQL database server password

Step 1: Stop Mysql Server: 

[root@linuxcnf~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.

Step 2: Start to MySQL server w/o password:

[root@linuxcnf~]# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & [1] 5988 Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql mysqld_safe[4256]: started

Step 3: Connect to Mysql server using mysql client:

[root@linuxcnf ~]#  mysql -u root Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 5.6.10-Centos_1-log Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql>

Step 4: Setup new Mysql root user Password:

mysql> use mysql; mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD") where user='root'; mysql> flush privileges; mysql> quit

Step 5: Stop MySQL Server:

[root@linuxcnf ~]#  /etc/init.d/mysqld stop Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid mysqld_safe[6186]: ended [1]+  Done                    mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables

Step 6: Start Mysql server and check:

[root@linuxcnf ~]#  /etc/init.d/mysqld start [root@linuxcnf ~]#  mysql -u root -p