关于这个话题的大多数答案都过时了;在写这个答案之前，MySQL发生了两个主要的变化:

1-用户表中的“Password”字段已被“authentication_string”列取代。

2-“Password”加密功能:Password(“of some text”)已弃用。

更多信息请参考此链接:dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/resetting-permissions.html

当你在你想要更改密码的系统上使用MySQL的PASSWORD()时，它可能会导致密码在MySQL日志中以cleartext [source]显示。对我来说，让它们和备份等像密码一样安全听起来像是噩梦，所以我喜欢这样做:

On your local machine, run this with your password: mysql -u someuser -p < <(echo "SELECT PASSWORD('mypass');") Note the space in front to prevent it from turning up in the bash history (for other distros than Ubuntu, this might work differently – source). On your server machine, execute the following command to change its MySQL root password (replace myhash with your password's hash as printed by the first command): mysql -u root -p < <(echo "SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost = 'myhash';") Optionally, let's be a bit paranoid: On your local machine, clear your terminal screen with clear and purge your virtual terminal scrollback, to hide the cleartext password appearing in the command above.

唯一对我有效的方法是这里描述的(我运行的是ubuntu 14.04)。为了清晰起见，以下是我遵循的步骤:

sudo vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf Add the following lines at the end: [mysqld] skip-grant-tables sudo service mysql restart mysql -u root use mysql select * from mysql.user where user = 'root'; - Look at the top to determine whether the password column is called password or authentication_string UPDATE mysql.user set *password_field from above* = PASSWORD('your_new_password') where user = 'root' and host = 'localhost'; - Use the proper password column from above FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit sudo vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf Remove the lines added in step 2 if you want to keep your security standards. sudo service mysql restart

参考:https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/resetting-permissions.html

1.打开nano / vim，创建一个包含以下内容的文件，并将文件保存为~/mysql-pwd

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'NEWPASSWORD';

停止mysql sudo systemctl停止mysql 执行sudo mysqld -init-file=~/mysql-pwd命令 重启mysql sudo systemctl start mysql 现在登录mysql -u root -p。password将是你的NEWPASSWORD

该解决方案属于以前版本的MySQL。 通过使用套接字身份验证登录MySQL，您可以做到这一点。

sudo mysql -u root

然后可以运行以下命令。

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';

详情请点击这里。

修改MySQL root密码。

此方法将密码暴露到命令行历史记录中，这些命令应该以root身份运行。

通过mysql命令行工具登录: Mysql -uroot -poldpassword 执行如下命令: SET PASSWORD FOR root@ localhost = PASSWORD('newpassword');

or

运行此命令，为当前用户设置密码(在本例中为'root'): SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('newpassword');