我遇到ubuntu 18.04和mysql 5.7的问题，这是解决方案

执行命令前请尝试重新启动mysql-server

sudo service mysql restart

Mysql-server >= 5.7

sudo mysql -uroot -p
USE mysql;
UPDATE user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD('YOUR_PASSWORD') WHERE User='root';
UPDATE user SET plugin="mysql_native_password";
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit;

Mysql-server < 5.7

sudo mysql -uroot -p
USE mysql;
UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('YOUR_PASSWORD') WHERE User='root';
UPDATE user SET plugin="mysql_native_password";
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit;

你不需要这些。只需登录:

Mysql -u root -p

然后按照mysql>提示修改当前用户的密码:

mysql> set password=password('the_new_password');
mysql> flush privileges;

Instead of resetting the password there is a work around on the local machine if you have setup phpmyadmin to connect without giving the password or username. Check this out by starting mysql, apache etc. I have xampp installed in my local machine. So starting the xampp will start all the necessary services. Now going to http://localhost/phpmyadmin shows me all the databases. This confirms that you have saved the username and passsword in the config file of phpmyadmin which can be found in the phpmyadmin install location. If you have xampp installed the phpmyadmin folder can be found in the root folder of xampp installation. Search for the word password in the config.inc.php file. There you will find the password and username.

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.

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';