You just got WordPress installed and completely forgot to change the random password? To change it, open a terminal and change the password field for the account you just created in mysql.  Here’s how:

First you’ll need to get your password encrypted using openssl.

$ # openssl passwd -1 my_super_secret_password

$1$AIO1MlAJ$nTI.HbEKpuYRbtCpn.5Vu/

Copy this hash so you can paste it into your sql statement later.  Now connect to mysql.

$ mysql -u root -p

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.

Your MySQL connection id is 976

Server version: 9.7.6evil Source distribution

Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the buffer.

mysql>

If you know the database name you can just connect to it, if your forgot, which I did, just list them all.

mysql> show databases;

Connect to your wordpress database.

mysql> connect my_wordpress_database_name;

And change the password.

mysql> update wp_users

-> set user_pass=’$1$AIO1MlAJ$nTI.HbEKpuYRbtCpn.5Vu/’

-> where user_login=’admin’;

And that’s it; all done.  Now you can get back to editing…