Hello people, Let's learn how to reset mysql root password? Come on !!! First You must stop the MySQL service running on your machine. To stop running the following command: /etc/init.d/mysql stop Now From the terminal, go to the folder where MySQL is installed, which should look something like /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/ and open the mysqld.cnf file with a text editor of your choice. Edit the open, skip-grant-tables file under the [mysqld] save entry. NOTE: Without the parentheses Go back to the terminal and restart the MySQL service that was stopped. /etc/init.d/mysql restart That done, go through the terminal and type mysql -u root Enter and type: update user set authentication_string=" " where User='root' This will make the user root the new password you entered. To complete the process Go back to the terminal, stop MySQL, go back to the mysqld.cnf file, remove an inserted row skip-grant-tables and