I ended up being able to set the password via some select commands. Here
are those commands if anybody is interested.
mysql -u root mysql
UPDATE user SET Password = PASSWORD ('new_password')
WHERE user = 'root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
The password was blank but for
Please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not currently subscribed to the list.
When I installed mysql-server debconf said to set the mysql root
password. Then it referenced /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian
for the instructions to do so. The instructions tell you to change it
with
You can also change the password by loggin in as root, and use mysql,
change the password entry in the table user (with SQL statements, don't
forget to use password=password('$password') instead of
password=$password).
Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Northwest Advantage wrote:
Please cc
Hello,
frodo:~# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password blah
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES)'
had the same problem. My sysadmin possibly raised a password during
installation. So the
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