Password problems using Mac OS X

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Felix
Hi all, I've been using MySQL for over a year now and I didn't install anything special recently, yet I suddenly find myself locked out of MySQL. I'm using version 3.23.49 and I'm running Mac OS 10.4.6 fully up-to- date. I normally connect using the root-user but this afternoon I first

Re: Password problems using Mac OS X

2006-06-14 Thread Dan Buettner
Kevin - You can start up the MySQL server without password protection using the --skip-grant-tables option. Note that will leave your server wide open, so you may also want to use the --skip-networking option and access it through the socket on the same machine. Something like this I

Re: Password problems using Mac OS X

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Felix
Dan, A thousand times thanks for the fast reply, I just reset my password with MySQL Administrator now, everything is back the way it was! On a sidenote: I also saw this as the version MySQL 5.0.17-max via socket. The version 3 was through phpinfo(). My php install and other MySQL do all