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> 
> I have been reading and following the instructions from:
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html
> 
> But, if I do:
> ./bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
> And then I:
> mysqladmin -u root password 'mypassword'
> I get:
> mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'You must have privileges to update 
> tables in the mysql database to be able to change passwords for others'

Flush privilege tables and then change password.
> 
> this is a 3.2 install that was working just fine but I just did an upgrade to 4.1.  
> I think I did the ?update permissions? script ok when I did the install.  But is 
> this the problem?



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