please help me. I've lost the admin password for mysql. what can I do? Do I have do uninstall and reinstall it? Please help me out of this!! :bawling: :( :bawling:

mysql.com has instructions on how to restore your lost password..

do a search there

You can give this a try.

If the mysql server is running use ps to find the pid and kill it.

Restart the server with the --skip-grant-tables option.

Set the root password with:
mysqladmin -u root password "yournewpassword"

Turn grant tables back on using:
mysqladmin flush-privileges


Richard

puuuuh, thanks a lot... it worked. I was really afraid :)