If you never set, forgot, or change your MySQL password, you're in luck. This article walks you through these steps, so you'll never be at a loss for that database root user password.

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't ...

If MySQL was built on such a system, the code that compares the cryptographic hash of a user-inputted password to the hash stored in the database for a particular account will sometimes allow ...

Brute force breaks authentication in one second. Security experts have identified some 879,046 servers vulnerable to a brute force flaw that undermines password controls in MySQL and MariaDB systems.

sudo mysql -u root -p Once at the MySQL console, create the new user with the command: create user 'dbadmin'@'%' identified by 'PASSWORD'; where PASSWORD is a strong and unique password.

MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

If MySQL was built on such a system, the code that compares the cryptographic hash of a user-inputted password to the hash stored in the database for a particular account will sometimes allow ...

No official patch is available for MySQL 5.0.x, because that version of the database server is no longer supported by Oracle. However, some Linux vendors might backport the patch from MySQL 5.1 or ...