You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps.

Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.

Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password

Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user

Step # 4: Setup new root password

Step # 5: Exit and restart MySQL server

Here are commands you need to type for each step (login as the root user):

Step # 1 : Stop mysql service

# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Output:

Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.

Step # 2: Start to MySQL server w/o password:

# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
Output:

[1] 5988
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
mysqld_safe[6025]: started

Step # 3: Connect to mysql server using mysql client:

# mysql -u root
Output:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 4.1.15-Debian_1-log

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql>

Step # 4: Setup new MySQL root user password

mysql> use mysql;
mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD") where User='root';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit

Step # 5: Stop MySQL Server:

# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Output:

Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld
STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
mysqld_safe[6186]: ended

[1]+  Done                    mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables

Step # 6: Start MySQL server and test it

# /etc/init.d/mysql start
# mysql -u root -p

[root@cyber ~]# cd /usr/src/

[root@cyber src]wget http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-3.0.0-all-languages.tar.gz

tar -xzf phpMyAdmin-3.0.0-all-languages.tar.gz

mv /usr/src/phpMyAdmin-3.0.0-all-languages /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin

cd /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin

cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php

vim +30 config.inc.php

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘config’;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = ‘root’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ‘mypassword’;

vim +326 /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

vim /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin/.htaccess

AuthName "phpMyAdmin"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require user MySQLAdmin

htpasswd -c /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin/.htpasswd MySQLAdmin

mkdir  /var/www/html/phpInfo
vi /var/www/html/phpInfo/index.php

<?php
phpinfo();
?>