Disclaimer: Do this at your own risk! It doesnt apply if youre using Pluggable authentication and certainly wont be usable if/when MySQL system tables are stored on InnoDB What is the situation? The situation is the classic need to recover MySQL root password but you cannot restart MySQL (because it is the master production server, [&]

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