temi odurinde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Chris + All,
> Thanks for your postings. God knows why but I still cannot login to MySQL, I could
>not kill and start MySQL in safe mode as suggested. (I come from a Windoz background.
>I am a total newbies Unix/command line stuff) but I found instructions on how to
>uninstall MySQL which I did successfully.
>
> I then reboot my server, install MySQL afresh (I was hoping this password on the new
>installation will be default cobalt password) but still could not login, I began to
>wonder if I did not actually lose the password in the first place.
>
> This is the syntax of the command I used and this is the message I keep getting:
>mysqladmin -uroot -pcobalt-mysql password mynewpassword (the default password for
>MySQL root on cobalt is cobalt-mysql)
>
> MySQL replied me with: mysqladmin: connect to server at "localhost" failed
> error 'access denied for user: 'root@localhost'(using password:YES)
If you did not specify a password when you installed MySQL, then there is no password.
Try typing "mysql mysql". If you get a prompt, then you can go from there. :)
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