What is the default password of MySQL?

Question

Can anyone tell me what is the default password of MySQL?

Answer 1

In MySQL, by default, the username will be root and there won’t be any password.

If you accidentally kept a password and forgot, here is how to reset the password:

Terminate the MySQL server and restart it with the –skip-grant-tables option.

sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &

After that, connect to the MySQL Server using the MySQL client:

 mysql -u root

After that, run this command to reload the grant tables:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Now you can set a new password:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password';

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Answer 2

By default, there is no universal password in MySQL. Let's say that you have installed your MySQL. The username will be ‘root’ but there won’t be any default password. You can just leave the password place empty and press enter. 

If you want to change the password in MySQL, you can use the below query.

UPDATE mysql.user SET user='newusername',

 password=PASSWORD('newpassword') WHERE user='root';

 FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Answer 3

In MySQL, the default username will be root, and typically, it won't have a password set.

 If you've set a password, but cannot remember it, here's how you can reset that:

 First of all, stop the MySQL server and start it again with the option –skip-grant-tables.

 Use the command: sudo /usr/sbin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking & Now, connect to the MySQL Server via the MySQL client:

 mysql -u root

Then run the following command to update the grant tables:

 FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

You can now enter whatever new password you want:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password';