You can recover a MySQL database server password with the following five easy steps:

Step # 1 : Stop the MySQL service:

# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop

Step # 2: Start the MySQL server w/o password:

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If you have never set a root password for MySQL, the server does not require a password at all for connecting as root. To set up a root password for the first time, use the mysqladmin command at the shell prompt as follows:

$ mysqladmin -u root password ‘newpassword’

If you want to change a root password, then you need to use the following command:

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