I can log back in as root, but the account has no administrative privileges anymore; create user, modify privileges, view process table, etc.
Maybe you can change the priviliges by running the mysql server in this way:
mysqld --skip-grant-tables --user=root
I've done that when I forgot root password, though I'm not sure if it works with the privileges stuff.
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