On debian, the password is set during the initial install of mysql-server. The default is blank (which isn't as insecure as it sounds, since the default is also to not listen on the network...).
If you took the default, this should work: mysql -u root If you changed it, there is no longer a good way to get at it, since it is no longer saved. (It used to be saved in ~root/.my_cnf, but now the install script sets the password and then forgets it.) You may be best off to purge mysql-server-5.0 and then reinstall to allow you to reset the password. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38976 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
