On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:14:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I used mysqladmin to create a database and set the grant properties
> to root@localhost with the password, but now am unable to use mysql
> at all.  How can I rectify this problem? When I try to access mysql
> I get 'Access denied for user root@localhost'. I have tried, from
> the command line, with -uroot -ppassword and get the same
> results. Please help ASAP.  I have always been able to connect as
> root with just 'mysql' at the prompt.

Start mysqld with the --skip-grant-tables option, as described in the
manual.

Jeremy
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