At Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:24:40 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Darn! I must have either made a typo or my use of a ";" in the
> MySQL root password so now I am locked out.
>
> Is there a work around or do I have to uninstall MySQL and reinstall?
Is the data in the database expendable (or is the database empty)?
Do you have a database backup?
If either of the above, you can probably just do a rm on the MySQL
database (after *stopping* the MySQL daemon!) and have MySQL create a
fresh, empty database using the MySQL first time install script. And
then set the password properly and/or restore the backup (if necessary
you can edit the backup file if the password there is 'bad').
>
> Todd
>
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