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Set the Root Password

Posted by Brad
April 29, 2005

After installing MySQL, the first thing you’ll want to do is reset the root password for MySQL. You can achieve this using the following command:

[root@myhost]# mysqladmin -u root password new-password

Set MySQL to start automatically with the following command

[root@myhost]# /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on

Update:
A much better way to secure your installation of MySQL is to run the mysql_secure_installation [...]