(Sorry if this is a duplicate post, email issues w/multiple accts) I have a MacBook Leopard OS 10.5.1 2 GB RAM. I've got a good amount of knowledge of computer systems, but haven't setup or worked with mySQL before. (usually use it preinstalled on my hosting service). I downloaded the package and installed it via the automated setup that comes for the MacOS. It started fine. The MySQL Sys prefs tool shows the status of the server as running. However, I want to now setup Wordpress on my localhost. I need to create a database on mysql. I opened the shell and navigate to the location of mysql. I have been using the instructions as shown below.
$ mysql -u adminusername -p Enter password: This is where I'm stuck. No matter what account I use, I am unable to login to the database. My personal account is the only account on the machine, while it's not root, it has full admin privs, and I've tried everything to login, including no password, my account's password, etc. Since I've not activated root on this machine (I understand that Apple, by default disables it), perhaps there's something I'm missing in my lack of knowledge of the way the Mac OS uses root? I'm sure this is a stupid newbie issue, but I'm a bit wrapped around the axle here. Do I need to use sudo? (I've even attempted this with no success). I've searched on a few lists to see if anyone has had this problem, but not seen it yet. Should I just reinstall? Am I just missing something that passed by in install (I don't remember adding a password other than entering the password that I use to admin the machine. Thoughts? Thanks in advance for any help.
