Re: [cobalt-users] Lost MySQL password (was MySQL users)

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kyle Smith <kyle.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I installed MySQL on my RAQ3 a few weeks ago, and forgot what I set the
> password to. How can I find out what I set the pass to?

You can't find out the password b/c it is stored one-way encrypted.  But you can
kill MySQL, then restart it in safe mode and edit the password.  To kill mysql
you'll need to find the PID of the mysql daemon.  Do "ps aux | grep mysql" to
find the daemon's PID, then do "kill 9 PID_HERE" to kill that process.  Then you
can follow instructions I posted to this list in November of 1999.

See my instructions at
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/1999-November/000155.html.

BTW, I found my instructions by going to the archives
(http://list.cobalt.com/cgi-bin/htsearch) and doing a search on "lost mysql"
(without the quotes) and my post was the first of the 3 that were returned.  The
archives' search engine can actually be quite useful if you put some thought
into your search terms and try a few different ones.

Steven Werby {steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx}