Is there a way to recover MySql user Password?

Question

I forgot the password to one of the user in MySQL. Is there a way to recover MySQL user Password?

Answer 1

You cannot recover but you can set a different one though:

like this:

• Stop & start the MySQL process with --skip-grant-tables option.
• Login to root user

List all the users;

SELECT * FROM mysql.user;

Reset password;

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('[password]') WHERE User='[username]';

restart the MySQL Process without the --skip-grant-tables option.

Or,

There is no need to restart the MySQL server.

use FLUSH PRIVILEGES; after the update mysql.user statement for password change.

The FLUSH statement tells the server to reload the grant tables into memory so that it notices the password change.

The --skip-grant-options enables anyone to connect without a password and with all privileges. Because this is insecure, you might want to

use --skip-grant-tables in conjunction with --skip-networking to prevent remote clients from connecting.

from: reference: resetting-permissions-generic