I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
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If you're running a local MySQL server that's only supposed to be accessed from the same *nix machine you don't need to bind it to a port at all. You can make it listen on a socket like /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock and it'll be fine. It's common to run on either or both depending how the server is set up.
There can be odd permissions set up and you can get around not knowing the MySQL root password by running things like mysqladmin as root if I remember correctly, but it's been a long time since I did that and I'm not 100% sure. I know if you search for things like "reset mysql admin password" you can do that as a sudo user without needing any other info.
If you're running a local MySQL server that's only supposed to be accessed from the same *nix machine you don't need to bind it to a port at all. You can make it listen on a socket like
/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sockand it'll be fine. It's common to run on either or both depending how the server is set up.There can be odd permissions set up and you can get around not knowing the MySQL root password by running things like
mysqladminas root if I remember correctly, but it's been a long time since I did that and I'm not 100% sure. I know if you search for things like "reset mysql admin password" you can do that as a sudo user without needing any other info.That is very useful to know, appreciate the info. Going to try those things out for myself.