mailing,
Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 9:41:11 PM, you wrote:

ml> I am attempting to add the ROOT user as a MYSQL administrator using the
ml> following syntax:

ml> mysqladmin -u root password 12345

This command doesn't add user 'root', it can only change password for
that user.

ml> and I recieve the following error: 

ml> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied
ml> for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)'
ml> anyone have any ideas?

Are you sure that you have supplied a correct password for user 'root'?

ml> Adrian






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