Monday, January 21, 2002, 11:46:19 AM, you wrote:
TI> I tried to set the root password in the mysql db;
TI> update user set Password='password' where User='root';
TI> So, it has set the passwords and then I made a
TI> flush privileges;
TI> I don't understand. What's wrong with this?
The correct statement to update root password is:
UPDATE USER SET password=password('your_password') WHERE user='root';
and then:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
See also about it: http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/a/Passwords.html
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