On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:32:30AM -0500, Tim Thorburn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After playing around for a few days in between real work, I got my new
> linux box up and running with RedHat 7.0 and MySQL 3.23.33 (the version the
> hosting company we use supports). My problem is that I know what password
> I use for the database as I need to type it in every time I start MySQL -
> but I don't know what username I used. Is there anywhere I can look to see
> what username I used?
>
> In order for our database to go online, the hosting company needs both the
> username/password - since we're going live tomorrow, this is one of those
> desperate mission critical messages - much like most of the messages on
> this list ;)
If you can connect to the database as 'root', try the following:
use mysql;
select host, user from user;
..and see if any of the usernames rings a bell :)
G'luck,
Peter
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