How To Reset MariaDB root Login Password

How To Reset The MariaDB Root Login Password

Pre-requisite:

MariaDB

Procedure:

First Stop the service of MariaDB

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl stop mariadb

Skip the Grant tables and restart the service of Mariadb using the below command.

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
[1] 31918

190803 10:09:10 mysqld_safe Logging to '/var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log'.
190803 10:09:10 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql

Login to the MariaDB database using the following command

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# mysql -u root

Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 1
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

Switch Over to the mysql database

MariaDB [(none)]> use mysql;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed

Change the Password of root using the following command.

MariaDB [mysql]> update user SET PASSWORD=PASSWORD('linux') WHERE USER="root";
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.03 sec)
Rows matched: 3  Changed: 3  Warnings: 0

Update the changes done using the below command

MariaDB [mysql]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec)

Now,Exit from the MariaDB database

MariaDB [mysql]> exit
Bye

Restart the Service of MariaDB

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl restart mariadb

Now,Login to the MariaDB database using the new password

 [root@linuxhelp ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 3
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> 

With this,MariaDB root login password has been changed successfully and the article comes to end.