Hi,
the root password for mysql is not the same as the password
for your linux system.
If you haven't set a password for mysql, you don't have any.
So you can check e.g. with:
mysqladmin ping
that you have not a password
or try
mysqladmin -p ping
and when he asks you: Password:
you press return.
In the same way you can access to mysql.
Gabi
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Mihai Marinescu wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I have tried to access the tables in the mysql database (the user, host tables) so
>as to grant some privileges to a user and I think I accidentally deleted an entry for
>root - the one that granted me access to mysql and now I cannot get in anymore from
>any machine, it says "access denied for user root@localhost using password -yes/no" .
>Can I still recover my privileges somehow? Is there any way I can correct what I did
>wrong? Because no matter what I do there's no way I can access MySQL. It's that I'm
>new to Linux and MySQL and for some reason or another it seems I have started off on
>the wrong foot :)
> Hope you could help me, thanks a lot.
> Mihai
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