Change mysql user password using command line

Question

In your code, try enclosing password inside single quote. Alternatively, as per the documentation of mysql, following should work –

SET PASSWORD FOR 'jeffrey'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('cleartext password');

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

The last line is important or else your password change won’t take effect unfortunately.

EDIT:

I ran a test in my local and it worked –

mysql>  set password for 'test' = PASSWORD('$w0rdf1sh');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Mine is version 5. You can use following command to determine your version –

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "%version%";