Re: Cracking MySQL Passwords

[Drew Tomlinson <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/2/2006 4:40 PM Peter Giessel wrote:

> On Thursday, February 02, 2006, at 03:24PM, Drew Tomlinson <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I'm frantically trying to recreate 3 users in the mysql.user table after 
> > accidentally deleting them.  I have the names and the password hashes 
> > but don't know the password.
> >    
>
> Recreate then users with a different password then login to mysql as root and:
>
> use mysql;
>
> update user set Password="<password hash>" where User="<recreated user>";
>
> flush privaleges;
>
>  
Thank you very much.  That should work!

Drew

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