On 12/02/2011 10:42 AM, wes wrote:
> I can't think of anything on the surface that looks ungood here. My next
> suggestion would be to set a password in mysql and try again from
> phpmyadmin.

Thanks. I was starting to think along those lines myself this morning.

It's been a few years since I fiddled with MySQL so I got out my trusty 
copy of SAMS PHP and MySQL Web Development and turned to the appendix. 
That reminded me of mysqladmin. It says that after the installation is 
complete one should run:

# mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'

replacing new-password with whatever I want for a password. Since this 
is an Ubuntu machine my  prompt is $ instead of # so I ran the command 
with sudo in front of it. After putting in my sudo password I get the 
error message:

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root@'localhost' (using password: NO)'

I know I've never done anything with this installation of mysql before 
this week. So I know I've never set a password for root or any other 
user. Any ideas on what the packagers decided was the default password? 
Or is there some other problem I'm missing?

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens


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