Change mysql user password using command line

Question

I'm trying to update the password for a database user using the command line, and it's not working for me. This is the code I'm using:

mysql> UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD($w0rdf1sh) WHERE user='tate256'; 

Could someone tell me what's wrong with this code.

Answer 1

In your code, try enclosing password inside single quote. Alternatively, as per the documentation of mysql, following should work -

SET PASSWORD FOR 'jeffrey'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('cleartext password');  FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 

The last line is important or else your password change won't take effect unfortunately.

EDIT:

I ran a test in my local and it worked -

mysql>  set password for 'test' = PASSWORD('$w0rdf1sh'); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) 

Mine is version 5. You can use following command to determine your version -

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "%version%";