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==Recovering / Setting passwords==
A lot of the instructions online for doing this no longer work with 5.7. The following is true for version 5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Obsolete instructions:
* [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44298160/mysql-mariadb-10-0-29-set-root-password-but-still-can-login-without-asking-p Mysql (MariaDB 10.0.29): Set root password, but still can login without asking password?]: the SQL command for changing passwords is different
** [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/set-password.html SET PASSWORD] is deprecated, but may work
** [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/alter-user.html ALTER USER] is preferred.
** '''BUT''' that won't work when grant tables are skipped; you have to use <code>update user set authentication_string=PASSWORD("new_password") where User='root';</code>
* [https://www.howtoforge.com/setting-changing-resetting-mysql-root-passwords Setting, Changing And Resetting MySQL Root Passwords]
** default value for [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_skip-grant-tables --skip-grant-tables] is now FALSE, so you have to specify <code>--skip-grant-tables=TRUE</code>