Hi

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

More info : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html

--Praj


On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:57:32 +0600
"Kosala Atapattu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi people,
> 
> I have a small problem. I forgot the password for user root in my
> personal MySQL instance. I'm a Linux user and running Debian Sarge on my
> computer. I have few other DBs which I created and which I have access
> to (still I remember the passwords) but are not having access to MySQL
> database.
> 
> Is there any way to recover from this situation. If I reinitialize the
> DB (somehow) how can I port my existing information back in to the
> initialized DB (without exporting and importing).
> 
> Any Debian friends who can help me.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kosala   
> 
> 

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