> 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?
it's null, you can login as root with no password initially
> 2) second what is the syntax for changing that blasted password.
update user set password=password('changeme') where user='root';
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