This article shows you how to set, change, and recover secure passwords for your MySQL root account, so you'll never be at a loss.

"When a user connects to MariaDB/MySQL, a token (SHA over a password and a random scramble string) is calculated and compared with the expected value," said Golubchik. "Because of incorrect ...

I've been giving a task of getting some things running on a web server. It has an installation of MySQL. However, between the different administrators for the system, the MySQL root password has ...

Security flaw in MySQL, MariaDB allows access with any password—just keep submitting it The flaw, patched in both databases, leaves some versions wide open to attackers ...