Overview

In this section, we will discuss several scenarios and how to deal with them:

Reset root password

To reset root password, we have to stop the MySQL and start it without the grant tables, change the password and then restart.

Reset Root password

[root@mysql-cluster-b ~]# systemctl stop mysqld.service   
[root@mysql-cluster-b ~]# mysqld --skip-grant-tables --user=mysql &
[1] 24010
[root@mysql-cluster-b ~]# mysql
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 7
Server version: 8.0.37 MySQL Community Server - GPL

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owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql>
mysql> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Secret123#';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> ^DBye
[root@mysql-cluster-b ~]# systemctl restart mysqld.service

Simple as that.