Re: MySQL configuration problem

[Ed <eddythejekyll@gmail.com>]

Yes, never mind. There is no problem.  Everything seems to be
working fine. I was afraid I'd corrupted the root user, but I'm able to
log into the monitor after all.

On 2/2/06, Craig Russell <craig@airdigitalnetwork.com> wrote:

the error message tells you the problem -

" error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'"

mysqladmin -uroot -pmy-password should work for you.

If you are just learning mysql the following website has been
unbelievably helpful.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html

Craig Russell


Ed wrote:

> I'm less worried about the ssl problem I've been having then the MySQL
> settup problem I'm having.
> I'm trying to get it settup so I can do some experiments and learn how
> it works.
>
> I'm first trying to set up some users but it fails out right away with
> access problems:
> falcon:/var/www# mysqladmin -u root password 'my-password'
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'
>
> This works:
>
> falcon:/var/www# mysqlshow -p
> Enter password:
> +-----------+
> | Databases |
> +-----------+
> | drupal    |
> | mysql     |
> | test      |
> +-----------+
>
> ...
>
> --
> Ed


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