PLEASE read the manual. you need to
set password = password('SomeJunk')
And the bug report form can be obtained by running mysqlbug, the instructions
for which are also found in the manual.
Thank you.
j----- k-----
On Friday 15 June 2001 13:08, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> Could not find a bug report form. So I am telling y'll...
>
> Platform: FreeBSD 4.3 (I do not think it matters)
>
> After creating a new database, I ran:
>
> update user set password = 'SomeJunk' where user = 'root';
>
> This inserts the string 'SomeJunk' literally into the database,
> unencrypted. This is SQL expected but the result is a database
> lockout (not to mention the security breach of having the clear
> password stored in a file.
>
> I got the smart idea to assign a root password like this from the
> Bugzilla-Guide.txt file that comes with Bugzilla.
>
> If there is a better way to assign passwords, please let me know.
>
> I tried
>
> grant all on mysql.* to foo identified by bar;
>
> Seems to work for creating new accounts.
>
> Also, the user table looks like:
>
> mysql> select host, user, password from user;
> +-----------+---------+------------------+
>
> | host | user | password |
>
> +-----------+---------+------------------+
>
> | localhost | root | 7d30d6e5796d165e |
> | nomis | root | 7d30d6e5796d165e |
> | localhost | | |
> | nomis | | |
> | localhost | ShimonR | 7d30d6e5796d165e |
>
> +-----------+---------+------------------+
> 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
> Does this mean that any user from localhost or from nomis can connect?
>
> Otherwise, this is really nice (my first first hand encounter with mysql).
--
Joshua Kugler, Information Services Director
Associated Students of the University of Alaska Fairbanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-7601
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