On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Kristopher Briscoe wrote:
> Two things that I am sure will be answered very quickly.
>
> 1) I have a development box that I have successfully installed and
> configured 3 seperate instances. Each instances has its own port number.
> When playing around with mysqladmin I know I can specify the port number as
> an option, but what I cannot figure out is how to change the password.
> What is the default password that is used whenever the tables are created
> for root?
the empty string ''
>
> 2) second what is the syntax for changing that blasted password.
since root initially doesn't have a passwd, you set it with:
mysqladmin password 'THE+NEW+PASSWORD'
But changing it for a user that already has one is:
mysqladmin -p password 'THE_NEW_PASSWORD'
and this time you'll be prompted for the old passwd for the change to take place.
>
> Thanks for the patience,
> Kris (aka: unixboy
Kris_aka:_unixboy, I think you should do the unix approach: read the manual.
regards,
thalis
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