My friend posted about reseting mysql root password long time ago. It still works but you have to know how to change root password properly. Since I have to do it by myself, I will explain more detail in this post.

1. Add skip-grant-tables in section [mysqld] in /etc/my.cnf
2. Restart mysqld by service mysqld restart

3. Change password using below query.

   update mysql.user set password=password('new password') where user='root';
   

4. Remove skip-grant-tables from /etc/my.cnf

5. Restart mysqld again

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