Resetting the root password of a MySQL database is trivial if you know the current password if you don't it is a little trickier. Thankfully it isn't too difficult to fix, and here we'll show one possible way of doing so.If you've got access to the root account already, because you know the password, you can change it easily:gaurav@gaurav:~$ mysql --user=root --pass mysql Enter password:mysql> update ...