{"id":1740,"date":"2016-10-22T18:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.eu\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T17:38:44","slug":"changing-the-root-or-any-other-mysql-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Changing the root or any other mysql password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MySQL stores username and passwords in the user table inside MySQL database. You can directly update or change the password using the following method:<\/p>\n<p>Login to your server, type the following command at prompt:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">$ mysql -u root -p<\/pre>\n<p>Use the mysql database;<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">mysql&gt; use mysql;<\/pre>\n<p>Change password for user root, enter:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">mysql&gt; update user set password=PASSWORD(\"NEW-PASSWORD\") where User='root';<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, you need to reload the privileges:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">mysql&gt; flush privileges;\r\n\r\n\r\nmysql&gt; quit<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MySQL stores username and passwords in the user table inside MySQL database. You can directly update or change the password using the following method: Login to your server, type the following command at prompt: $ mysql -u root -p Use the mysql database; mysql&gt; use mysql; Change password for user root, enter: mysql&gt; update user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[23,51,55,73,100],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge","category-technical","tag-asterisk","tag-linux","tag-mysql","tag-support","tag-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tuxxmas.jpg?fit=208%2C242&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5daZy-s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyber-cottage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}