Hi, I use MySQL on a Windows 2000 box and I usually change users and
passwords from the MySQL shell, using:
UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('newpassword') WHERE user='root';
I never had a single problem with this.
bye, Bibe
At 15.37 09/06/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I am getting a error after installing on the Windows 2000 Professional
>Operating System.
>Everything was going by the 'Manual' until i got to the root user password
>change command. I
>have checked through a series of posts, self-proclaimed mysql "gurus" and
>lists and the
>Manual itself, and for the life of me i cannot find one single instance on
>this error. It
>might have something to do with the handling under NT/2000 systems i don't
>know. I have
>never had this problem under FreeBSD.
>
>The system this is running on if being setup for a NT network for intranet
>development
>locally.
>
>I'd appreciate if you would consider this a bug, and please reply with any
>possible
>resolutions that you may have. I thank you for your courtesy and any hasty
>information you
>can give me on this.
>
>The error is below:
>
>
>
>
>F:\mysql\bin>mysqladmin -u root password xxxxxxxxx
>mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'Lost connection to MySQL
>server d
>uring query'
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>ShizNiz
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