I am gonna reply to you with a Quote from my first message: "I can't add any database's or anything cause it tells me that root@localhost is denied access. " Emphasize on the "anything" part! h3rb On Thursday 07 June 2001 10:54, Paul Cox wrote: > On Thursday, Jun 07, 2001, h3rb wrote: > > How do I set the root password for mysql? I can't add any database's or > > anything cause it tells me that root@localhost is denied access. I > > switch to the user mysql and try to change the password that way. And > > mysql tell's me that the user mysql doesn't have permission to change > > passwords for other users. Could anyone point me in the right direction? > > I have gone to mysql.com and tried their solution to change a forgotton > > password. And that doesn't work either. I still can't connect to my > > database. I have setup mysql from scratch on other distro's. But this > > one with MDK8 is just about driving me nutz. > > /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'whatever-password-you-want' > > should do it...
