On Sunday 22 December 2002 06:29, William Bradley wrote:
> At the present time I am using Mandrake 9.0 and installed the MySql
> programmes that con the three disks:
>
> MySQL-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm*
> MySQL-bench-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm*
> MySQL-client-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm*
> MySQL-Max-3.23.52-1mdk.i586.rpm
>
> #mysql_install_db has been run. The last time I did this it said to
> change the root password in the book I am using: "Sams Teach Yourself
> MySQL in 21 Days" with the following:
>
> #mysqladmin -password newpassword
>
> As the old password is supposed to be empty I used the following on the
> command line:
>
> #mysqladmin -password green
>
> but something was not right and later executions it would not accept this
> password.
>
> The above was installed as root. So now when I do the following:
>
> # or $ mysqld -p
>
> It asks for a password and I can't get it to work. To ensure the server
> is working if I do the following:
>
> $ps -aux | grep mysql
>
> It gives me:
>
> william 3083 0.0 0.4 1672 pts/1 S 23:24 0:00 grep mysql
>
> If anyone can help put order into my disorder over all this, it will be
> truly appreciated.
First of all check that password for 'root' was really changed, because
mysqladmin -password newpassword
is not correct command to change password. How to change the password read
here:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Passwords.html
If the password was changed, you can reset it follow the instruction at:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html
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