Quick Guide: Setting up initial MySQL root user password

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After a successfull installation of MySQL you need to set an initial password for your mysql root user.

below are a quick way to do that (For Linux installation):

shell> mysql -u root mysql

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD('new_password');

Posted by polaris in Techie at 16:14 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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