您可以使用该命令:

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpwd') WHERE User='root';

之后请冲洗:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

要更新“root”Mysql用户密码，你必须记住，你将需要超级用户权限。如果您拥有超级用户权限，请尝试执行以下命令:

MySQL 5.7.6及以上版本

sudo su
service mysql stop
mysql -u root
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'MyNewPass';
\q;
exit
mysql -u root -p MyNewPass

MySQL 5.7.5及更早版本

sudo su
service mysql stop
mysql -u root
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('MyNewPass');
\q;
exit
mysql -u root -p MyNewPass

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');

对于mysql 5.6，这个命令有效，你可以通过向导设置密码:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.6

这就是我的解决方案。我在Ubuntu 18.04工作: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46076838/2400373

但是重要的是最后一步的改变:

UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD('YOURNEWPASSWORD'), plugin='mysql_native_password' WHERE User='root' AND Host='localhost'; 

我还没有看到MySQL 8.0指南中推荐的官方步骤，这是唯一适合我的步骤。下面是这些步骤的总结。

Stop the MySQL server if it is running. Look in /var/lib/mysql/, /var/run/mysqld/, or /usr/local/mysql/data/ to find the pid file with the server's process ID. Generally the file begins with either mysqld or your system's host name and ends with .pid. Replace mysql-data-directory and host_name that you just found, in the following command: $ sudo kill `sudo cat /mysql-data-directory/host_name.pid` This command will create a text file in /tmp/mysql-init with the SQL statement and makes the mysql user the owner. Replace in the command MyNewPass with your own password. $ echo "ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'MyNewPass';" > /tmp/mysql-init && sudo chown mysql /tmp/mysql-init Start the MySQL server by running the following command on the command line. After this the password is updated and you can close the server again with CTRL+C. $ sudo mysqld --user=mysql --init-file=/tmp/mysql-init & Remove the temporary file with your password: $ sudo rm /tmp/mysql-init