This article shows you how to set, change, and recover secure passwords for your MySQL root account, so you'll never be at a loss.

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't match.

Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials.