Would you like to learn how to recover the MariaDB admin password? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use the MariaDB password recovery procedure to change the password of the ROOT user using the command-line of a computer running Ubuntu Linux.
• Ubuntu 20
• Ubuntu 19
• Ubuntu 18
• MariaDB 10.3
Tutorial MariaDB - Password Recovery
Stop the MariaDB service.
Create the required directory and set the proper permission.
Restart the MariaDB service using the following command.
Here is the command output:
Access the MariaDB command-line.
Set a new password to the MariaDB root user.
In our example, we set the password 123qwe.
Stop the MariaDB service using the following command.
You will need to enter the new MariaDB root password to stop the service.
Start the MariaDB service.
Try to access the MariaDB service using the new root password.
Congratulations! You successfully recovered the password of the MariaDB root user.
