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title: "How do you change a password for an existing user via mysqladmin?"  
description: "How do you change a password for an existing user via mysqladmin?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-04-23  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/786/how-do-you-change-a-password-for-an-existing-user-via-mysqladmin  
category: "mysql"  
tags: ["mysql"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How do you change a password for an existing user via mysqladmin?

mysqladmin -u root -p password "newpassword"

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

mysqladmin -u root -p password "newpassword"


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