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My company hosts their intranet on their own internal server. The intranet runs mysql databases. We no longer know the usernames and passwords to update the databases on there. If I reset the mysql root password (<a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html" rel="ugc">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html</a>) will it cause scripts or anything running on our server or intranet that depended on the old root password to fail?
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My company hosts their intranet on their own internal server. The intranet runs mysql databases. We no longer know the usernames and passwords to update the databases on there. If I reset the mysql root password (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html) will it cause scripts or anything running on our server or intranet that depended on the old root password to fail?

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