A frequent question is **how do I recover my database password?**, see [[http://forum.i-mscp.net/Thread-How-can-I-recover-the-database-password|here]]

The typical process is always the same

=== Have you lost access to mysql? ===

If you haven't just go to the next point, otherwise you will need to start mysql with **skip-grant-tables**
More info [[http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/recover-mysql-root-password.html|here]]

=== Recover main user ===

You can access using the debian-sys-maint user on most of debian systems, you'll e able to recover your user from there.

  mysql -udebian-sys-maint -p`grep password /etc/mysql/debian.cnf|head -n1|awk '{print $3}'`

=== Recover i-mscp database user ===

To recover that one you have to edit two files  **imscp.old.conf** and  **imscp.conf** and delete the values on both files for the entries:

  DATABASE_HOST = 
  DATABASE_PORT =
  DATABASE_NAME =
  DATABASE_PASSWORD = 

After that re-run the autoinstaller that will ask you the user and password to use to manage i-mscp:
  perl ./imscp-autoinstall