Maria DB – How to reset root password ?

If you come across a situation where you do not remember to master password (root password) of Maria DB then following simple steps will be helpful to reset the root password.

First stop MariaDB Server.
```
# systemctl stop mariadb
```
Edit /etc/my.cnf file and add following line (skip-grant-tables) in [mysqld] section as given below.
```
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-grant-tables
```
Now start MariaDB. It will open without any password.
```
# systemctl start mariadb
```

# mysql
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 96823
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]>

Now set mysql root password using following commands.

MariaDB [(none)]> use mysql ;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed
MariaDB [mysql]> update user set password=password('123') where user='root' ;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 4 Changed: 0 Warnings: 0

MariaDB [mysql]> flush privileges ;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [mysql]> quit ;
#

Now edit /etc/my.cnf file again and remove line (skip-grant-tables) in [mysqld] section.
Now it’s time to restart MariaDB server again.
```
# systemctl restart mariadb
```

You have done it !