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With this security vulnerability, your admin password can be reset if your wordpress version <=2.8.3.  For more information about exploit visit: http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9410

Solution:

open wp-login.php

Find this line

if ( empty( $key ) )

and change with this:

if ( empty( $key ) || is_array( $key ) )


or

patch: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/2-8-4-security-release/

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Q. How do I change MySQL root password under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and UNIX like operating system over ssh / telnet session?

A. Setting up mysql password is one of the essential tasks. root user is MySQL admin account. Please note that Linux / UNIX login root account for your operating system and MySQL root are different. They are separate and nothing to do with each other (indeed some admin removes root account and setup admin as mysql super user).
mysqladmin command to change root password

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