Предполагается, что операции чтения по скорости станут оптимальней в два раза, другие операции ускорятся примерно в три раза. Движок InnoDB станет движком по умолчанию (вместо MyISAM). Ну и собственно много различных изменений, связанных с производительностью и масштабируемостью системы в целом.

Для того чтобы привязать пароль в момент создания аккаунта при помощи CREATE USER, добавляем IDENTIFIED BY:

mysql> CREATE USER 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Для установки или изменения пароля пользователя используем SET PASSWORD:

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'user'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('password');

Только такие пользовати как root имеющие доступ на изменения в базе mysql могут менять пароли для остальных пользователей. Если у вас не анонимное соединение с базой данных, то вы можете сменить свой пароль, исключив пункт FOR:

mysql> SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('password');

You can also use a GRANT USAGE statement at the global level (ON *.*) to assign a password to an account without affecting the account’s current privileges:

mysql> GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'jeffrey'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'biscuit';

Passwords can be assigned from the command line by using the mysqladmin command:

shell> mysqladmin -u user_name -h host_name password "newpwd"

The account for which this command resets the password is the one with a user table row that matches user_name in the User column and the client host from which you connect in the Host column.

Although it is generally preferable to assign passwords using one of the preceding methods, you can also do so by modifying the user table directly:

• To establish a password when creating a new account, provide a value for the Password column:

  shell> mysql -u root mysql
  mysql> INSERT INTO user (Host,User,Password)
      -> VALUES('localhost','jeffrey',PASSWORD('biscuit'));
  mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

• To change the password for an existing account, use UPDATE to set the Password column value:

  shell> mysql -u root mysql
  mysql> UPDATE user SET Password = PASSWORD('bagel')
      -> WHERE Host = 'localhost' AND User = 'francis';
  mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

When you assign passwords using CREATE USER or GRANT with an IDENTIFIED BY clause or with the mysqladmin password command, they take care of encrypting the password for you.

When you assign an account a nonempty password using SET PASSWORD, INSERT, or UPDATE, you must use the PASSWORD() function to encrypt the password. PASSWORD() is necessary because the user table stores passwords in encrypted form, not as plaintext. If you forget that fact, you are likely to set passwords like this:

shell> mysql -u root mysql
mysql> INSERT INTO user (Host,User,Password)
    -> VALUES('localhost','jeffrey','biscuit');
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

The result is that the literal value 'biscuit' is stored as the password in the user table, not the encrypted value. When jeffrey attempts to connect to the server using this password, the value is encrypted and compared to the value stored in the user table. However, the stored value is the literal string 'biscuit', so the comparison fails and the server rejects the connection:

shell> mysql -u jeffrey -pbiscuit test
Access denied

Note

PASSWORD() encryption differs from Unix password encryption. See Section 5.5.1, “User Names and Passwords”.

1. Останавливаем mysqld сервис.
2. Стартуем mysqld сервис с опцией  –skip-grant-tables.
3. Запускаем mysql клиент под пользователем root: mysql -u root
4. Выполняем запрос:  UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘password’) WHERE User=’root’;
5. Выполняем команду: FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Пароль изменен.