Installation and Configuration

[Bruce Feist]

I'm a newcomer to MySQL, and I'm having trouble.  I've installed MySQL 
under RedHat 7.1 Linux, and I can't actually use it; I get authorization 
error messages when I try.  In particular, I understand that initially a 
'root' user is set up without a password.  I can't connect to the 
database as 'root' with:

mysql -u root mysql

but I get "access denied" messages.  I tried wiping out the security 
data and recreating it with:

mysql_install_db

but that didn't seem to improve matters.

Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?

Bruce Feist



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