How to recover MySQL database root password from Software Collections

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Issue

  • We need to recover mysql root password and we are unable to find mysql_safe binary come with package rh-mysql57-mysql-server-5.7.24-1.el7.x86_64.
  • mysql_safe binary is not available

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • rh-mysql57-server

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