Rick Stevens wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Dave Foran wrote:
I have a major issue of sorts ;-)
I have no idea what the password for root is
I have tried a a number of recommended edits to try and either
delete or
replace the password but all have failed.
The rpm on FC3 CD will not permit removal as yum has updated the file
routine. I d/l the currant rpm and it will not allow removal. It says,
this in not installed..
Any good thoughts short of re-installing everything and that is not a
viable idea..
I need I think a way to un-install mysql and do a clean install..
Any thoughts ??
Thanks
Dave
Yah I've had that happen to me before. I think there's a better
solution to what I'm about to suggest, I'll google for it later.
# service mysql stop
# mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql_working
# rpm -e MySQL-server # you may need to erase some other
packages to get this to work
then
# yum insall MySQL # if that's what you really want
or
browse to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html and download
the necessary RPMS and
# rpm -ivh MySQL*.rpm
After you get your mysql back up and running, copy back in your
database from /var/lib/mysql_working , ensuring not to copy the mysql
database. Then just resetup your perms for the dbases and tables.
You might want to check these links first though#
http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/171366
http://www.alt-php-faq.org/local/70/
If you check the mysql website and do a search, you'll find this:
In a Unix environment, the procedure for resetting the root password
is as follows:
1.
Log on to your system as either the Unix root user or as the
same user that the mysqld server runs as.
2.
Locate the .pid file that contains the server's process ID. The
exact location and name of this file depend on your distribution,
hostname, and configuration. Common locations are /var/lib/mysql/,
/var/run/mysqld/, and /usr/local/mysql/data/. Generally, the filename
has the extension of .pid and begins with either mysqld or your
system's hostname.
You can stop the MySQL server by sending a normal kill (not kill
-9) to the mysqld process, using the pathname of the .pid file in the
following command:
shell> kill `cat /mysql-data-directory/host_name.pid`
Note the use of backticks rather than forward quotes with the
cat command; these cause the output of cat to be substituted into the
kill command.
3.
Create a text file and place the following command within it on
a single line:
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('MyNewPassword');
Save the file with any name. For this example the file will be
~/mysql-init.
4.
Restart the MySQL server with the special
--init-file=~/mysql-init option:
shell> mysqld_safe --init-file=~/mysql-init &
The contents of the init-file are executed at server startup,
changing the root password. After the server has started successfully
you should delete ~/mysql-init.
5.
You should be able to connect using the new password.
Yet another method I suppose. This way looks neat
