A fresh installation of the XAMPP Control Panel on a Windows device doesn’t hold the root password for MySQL PHPMyAdmin. In such a case, it could be easily accessible to everyone and that ...

I installed PHP/Apache/MySQL recently and everything seems to be working well. How do I set my root password. To access my db I use @mysql_connect("localhost", "database", "");It works. I run ...

To change the root password in Ubuntu, you'll need to enable the root account first. Luckily, changing the root password actually enables it, so that's not a worry.