Can't Reset MySQL (MariaDB) Root Password


Answer :

I have found a solution that is as strange as the problem itself.

Reboot MySQL/MariaDB using --skip-grant-tables (search for tutorials on the web). (not necessary at all, read my edits at the end of the post)

Look at the plugin field into the mysql.user table:

MariaDB [mysql]> SELECT user, plugin FROM user; +------+-------------+ | user | plugin      | +------+-------------+ | root | unix_socket | | root | unix_socket | | root | unix_socket | | root | unix_socket | +------+-------------+

I had to reset the plugin field of each entry to a blank string.

UPDATE user SET plugin="";   // without WHERE clause

Also, make sure that a password is defined, because sometimes it seems to be erased (select on user, password fields). If not, update it with:

UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD("my_password") WHERE user="root";

Privileges parameters need to be saved explicitly:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Then, restart MySQL in normal mode and you should be able to connect to the root account.

This will not necessarily disable the connection via Unix socket. After my MySQL va repaired, in PMA, I can see that the connection is established through an Unix socket.

EDIT, some months later: I'm now used to have this problem come back frequently, I think at each update of MariaDB (or something like that). So I've got a better comprehension of the probem ; there's an UNIX_SOCKET plugin that can let you log in a MariaDB account without having to create a password, because it uses the shell's credentials to trust you, without having to enter any password. In fact, this plugin is an authentication plugin and not a method of communication with the SQL server. So you can safely disable it if you don't use unix socket as a logging-in method. The only thing I can't explain is why the UNIX_SOCKET plugin is regularly set on each account of the database, without any action on my side.

This has the nice side effect that, when it happens, you can login to the SQL server without having to restart MariaDB with --skip-grant-tables: just log-in to the system's root account, then just connect with mysql -u root without password, then reset the plugin field in the way it is explained above.

EDIT 2: Confirmed, it happens on each MariaDB upgrade on Ubuntu.


From this answer, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2275033&p=13272227#post13272227.

Mysql tries to authenticate root using plugin, not password. You need to disable plugin usage for root.

shell$ sudo mysql -u root  [mysql] use mysql; [mysql] update user set plugin='' where User='root'; [mysql] flush privileges; [mysql] \q

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