That was it. Once I removed PASSWORD, it went through, and I'm able to restart MySQL now.
Thanks for your help. Jesse ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Simpson To: Jesse Cc: MySQL List Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:48 AM Subject: Re: Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' Hi Jesse, If you're specifying the password in plain text, you shouldn't put the PASSWORD directive in there; you only use PASSWORD if you're using the hashed password that MySQL will actually store.
