On Thursday 28 July 2005 04:20 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote:
I have just installed MySQL 5. I can access the program as a regular
user, but not as root. As I regular user I have no privileges. If I
attempt to access as root, I receive this error message.
ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
password: NO)
I can access the program as root using: mysql -u root -p and then
supplying a password at the prompt, but that is about it.
What can I do to correct this problem? I tried deleting the entire
package and reinstalling it, but the problem continues. When I first
installed the program, it worked, but only one time. Obviously, I did
something, but I do not know what.
The system root user is separate from MySQL's root user. The system
root user should not be able to access the database server directly. I
think this is true for both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
If you can log in using 'mysql -u root -p [password]', then everything
is okay to start. It's not that you did something wrong, rather you
haven't finished setting up the database for your user.
Database servers aren't like gui text editors. It's important that you
read the documentation. Here are some helpful links:
Start here for your immediate needs:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/default-privileges.html
Manual Index:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/index.html
MySQL Tutorial:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/tutorial.html
Best of luck,
Andrew Gould
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