[Wolves] Rebuilding MySQL user database

[Jon Farmer]

Old Dan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Does anyone know how to rebuild the MySQL users database, specifically 
> so root gets it's proper rights back?  I've been trying to install 
r.
> 
> So is there any way of getting it back, or am I going to have to purge? 

You restart the server with the --skip-grant-tables option .

This will let you in as user root with no password and then you just do a :-

update mysql.user set Password=PASSWORD(iwilltrytorememberthistime') 
where User = 'root';


Regards

Jon

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