title: Reset MySQL root password not working
body: <p>I've setup MySQL on my mac a while ago and I forgot what my root password was.(there are only a few password combinations I use, and none of them seems to work) I've tried many methods, including trying to reset the root password in safe mode. Nothing seems to be working for me.</p>
  
  <p>Below is the log that I got from a few solutions I tried:</p>
  
  <p><strong>1.Normal Login</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>Yorks-MacBook-Pro:~ yorkwang$ mysql -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
  
  Yorks-MacBook-Pro:~ yorkwang$ mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (usingpassword: YES)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>2.Safemode Password Reset</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>Yorks-MacBook-Pro:~ yorkwang$ mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
  2016-07-08T18:37:50.6NZ mysqld_safe Logging to '/usr/local/var/mysql/Yorks-MacBook-Pro.local.err'.
  2016-07-08T18:37:51.6NZ mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/var/mysql
  /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe: line 135: /usr/local/var/mysql/Yorks-MacBook-Pro.local.err: Permission denied
  rm: /tmp/mysql.sock: Permission denied
  /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe: line 169: /usr/local/var/mysql/Yorks-MacBook-Pro.local.err: Permission denied
  2016-07-08T18:37:51.6NZ mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/var/mysql/Yorks-MacBook-Pro.local.pid ended
  /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe: line 135: /usr/local/var/mysql/Yorks-MacBook-Pro.local.err: Permission denied
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>3.Safemode Password Reset (with MYSQL server turned off)</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code> [1]+  Stopped                 sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables
   Yorks-MacBook-Pro:~ yorkwang$
  
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.807384Z 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.809064Z 0 [Warning] Insecure configuration for --secure-file-priv: Current value does not restrict location of generated files. Consider setting it to a valid, non-empty path.
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.810163Z 0 [Note] mysqld (mysqld 5.7.11) starting as process 68112 ...
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.823374Z 0 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/var/mysql/ is case insensitive
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.835814Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.835842Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.835848Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.835852Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.837573Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.839941Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions 2016-07-08T18:43:50.850947Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 128M, instances = 1, chunk size = 128M
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.865025Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.891791Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.926530Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.926759Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.958427Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB.
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.959275Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 96 redo rollback segment(s) found. 96 redo rollback segment(s) are active.
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.959287Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 32 non-redo rollback segment(s) are active.
   2016-07-08T18:43:50.959505Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.014726Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 5.7.11 started; log sequence number 2494670
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.015106Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from /usr/local/var/mysql/ib_buffer_pool
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.015947Z 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.029570Z 0 [Note] Found ca.pem, server-cert.pem and server-key.pem in data directory. Trying to enable SSL support using them.
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.029602Z 0 [Note] Skipping generation of SSL certificates as certificate files are present in data directory.
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.031297Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 160708 11:43:51
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.033667Z 0 [Warning] CA certificate ca.pem is self signed.
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.034667Z 0 [Note] Skipping generation of RSA key pair as key files are present in data directory.
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.041311Z 0 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '*'; port: 3306
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.041463Z 0 [Note] IPv6 is available.
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.041482Z 0 [Note]   - '::' resolves to '::';
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.041495Z 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
   2016-07-08T18:43:51.149448Z 0 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.7.11'  socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock'  port: 3306  Homebrew
   mysql -u root mysql
   ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Additional info:</strong> I'm using a macbook pro with OSX 10.11.5</p>