I think that you would have got the answer by now, but initally mysql does
not need a password. You can just login without the password, then change
it using mysqladmin newpassword.
Adrian
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Luis wrote:
> I read the manual plus look on the site. I been having trouble setting up a
> password for root.
> here's the message i get.
>
> First I run this
>
> $mysql_install_db
>
> $mysqladmin -u root -p password 'newpassword'
>
> Enter password: < I enter the password same as above >
>
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
>
> error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)'
>
> now can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong. I download the
>
> MySQL-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm
> MySQL-bench-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm
> MySQL-client-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm
> MySQL-devel-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm
> MySQL-shared-3.23.33-1.i386.rpm
>
>
> Thank you for the help
>
> Luis
>
>
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