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Change password of mysql users

Change MySQL user's password in bulk Sometimes we need to change the password of mysql users at bulk. Lets say your company has fired a group of peoples or dissolved a project. This requirement can be supplied as : We can achieve the same by changing the password field in mysql.user table. Password() is a predifined method in mysql which generates encrypted value of a certain string. host update mysql.user set password = PASSWORD("passwd") where host IN (<Comma separated list of HostName/IP>); user update mysql.user set password = PASSWORD("passwd") where user IN (<Comma separated list of ‘user’@’host’>);

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