I have lost my MySQL root password, how can I get in?

Hi,

Can any one tell me how get my mysql root password back...

Hi Prabeen,

If you have forgotten the root user password for MySQL, you can restore it with the following procedure:

Take down the mysqld server by sending a kill (not kill -9) to the mysqld server.

The pid is stored in a .pid file, which is normally in the MySQL database directory:
kill `cat /mysql-data-directory/hostname.pid`

You must be either the Unix root user or the same user the server runs as to do this.

Restart mysqld with the --skip-grant-tables option.

Connect to the mysqld server with mysql -h hostname mysql and change the password with a GRANT command.

You can also do this with mysqladmin -h hostname -u user password 'new password'

Load the privilege tables with: mysqladmin -h hostname flush-privileges or with the SQL command FLUSH PRIVILEGES.

Note that after you started mysqld with --skip-grant-tables, any usage of GRANT commands will give you an Unknown command error until you have executed FLUSH PRIVILEGES.