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Change or Set User Password in FreeBSD

takizo — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:51:02 +0000

If you notice, during FreeBSD installation, it doesn’t have a step by step installation guides for creating user’s password for login credential. By default, FreeBSD installation only come with user “root”, and it doesn’t prompts for password setting for default user “root”. After installation, you can login to FreeBSD with user “root”, no password.

So, it’s advise that to set user’s password after installation. You can set or change user’s password in FreeBSD with passwd command.

Try to have your password in alphanumeric combination, meaning alphabets + numbers and at least 6 characters long. You can do some creative password combination like “go2HELL”, “1amN00b1nUn1x”, “BUYm3b33r”, “h3ySumm3rH0t” and etc. Please do remember, the password is case sensitive too.

To Set Password for Default User “root”

To set the password;

type: passwd
input your password twice

To change your password, use the same command and it will prompt you for current password before putting the new one.

To Set or Change Password for Other Userid

Type: passwd foo
Input your password twice

Create Root Privilege User on MySQL

takizo — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:57:56 +0000

By default, MySQL root privileges user is “root”, I always remove “root” userid once I got MySQL installed, mainly for security purpose, secondly I do not want stupid thing happened like someone able to brute force into MySQL database.

You can create “root” alike privilege user in MySQL by following the step below;

Access to mysql /usr/local/bin/mysql
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘yourusername’@'localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘yourpasswordhere’ WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit;

You can add a few more privileges user if you have more than 1 person to admin MySQL Database.

Reset MySQL Root Password

takizo — Mon, 10 May 2010 08:55:11 +0000

Very often, once we didn’t log on to MySQL database for some time, I guess most of us will forgot the root password. Can we reset the root password? Obviously… Nothing is Impossible

Follow the steps below to reset MySQL’s Root Password;

Stop MySQL Service
Start MySQL Service in Safe Mode: /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables&
Connect to MySQL /usr/local/bin/mysql
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> UPDATE user set password=password(‘newpassword’) where user=’root’ and host=’localhost’;
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit;
Stop MySQL Service Again
Start MySQL Service in normal mode