Olga Lyashevska wrote:
e7253:mysql olichka$ /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
Try: $ /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -pIt looks like you aren't logging into MySQL as root, so you don't have permission to set the root password. (If you don't give -u, it uses your OS X short user name as the MySQL user, which probably doesn't exist.)
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