--- Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This has happened to me so many times I am finally going to ask. Why in
> the hell when I follow the directions given immediately after installing
> do I get an error?
>
> Here is what the thing says after installing (and I quote):
>
> "
> PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !
> To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands:
> /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
> /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h blah.domain.ca password
> 'new-password'
> "
>
> Ok, Ok, I'll do it!
>
> # mysqladmin -u root -h blah.domain.ca password 'password'
> This worked.
The above line should read:
# mysqladmin -u root password 'password'
> # mysqladmin: connect to server at 'blah.domain.ca' failed
> error: 'Host 'localhost.domain.ca' is not allowed to connect to this
> MySQL
> server'
The error was produced after trying this:
# mysqladmin -u root -h blah.domain.ca password 'password'
> Huh??????
>
> I'm using package 4.0.24 on OpenBSD 3.8. Grrrrrr.
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