Justin, Sunday, May 12, 2002, 5:13:53 PM, you wrote: JF> I'm a total newbie when it comes to windows set-ups... I've managed to get JF> Apache and PHP4 running nicely on an old Pentium laptop running Win95, and JF> have managed to install MySQL with ease.
JF> However, I'm not all that sure how to set up users (or even what the default JF> user "root"'s password is), in order to fire up phpMyAdmin and set-up some JF> DB's for testing. About default MySQL privileges on Windows you can read at: http://www.mysql.com/doc/W/i/Windows_running.html By default 'root' user has no password. How to create new user, how to change password etc. these all are described in our manual: http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/e/Default_privileges.html http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/d/Adding_users.html http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/d/Adding_users.html JF> It's also not clear to me how to get a mysql command line in DOS, like in JF> FreeBSD. You can run MySQL in FAR manager window or something like that. JF> Can someone point me to the right pages in the manual? JF> Justin -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php