The -p means you are going to enter the CURRENT password. Since you don't have one yet, either leave off the -p, or hit the enter key at the passowrd prompt.
P. Fawcett wrote:
after install binary mysql 3.23.49: must be something obvious but i'm
missing it - how come i can't set root & user passwd? simple syntax
error?
[root@a bin]# ./mysqladmin -u root -p password pppppp
Enter password: & i enter ppppp again
./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)'
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