Ralph McCarthy wrote:
Hi:
I've just installed MySQL on Mac OS X 10.2.8. I'm unable to create a database. When I try to do so, I get the following error message:
I have the same setup.
mysql> CREATE DATABASE MYDATABASE; ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'mydatabase'
See #3 below.
I suspect that the problem may be that I never set the password for mysqladmin correctly (perhaps I didn't set it at all).
When I attempt to set it using this command:
mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password <password>
I get this message:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO)'
See #1 below.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
Ralph
1) The command
mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password <password>
fails because [EMAIL PROTECTED] already has a password which you didn't supply. I expect this is because you've already run
mysqladmin -u root password <password>
to set the password. Once [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a password, you need to run mysqladmin like this:
mysqladmin -u root -p <command>
The -p indicates you need to suppply the password, so you'll be prompted for it.
2) If you don't know what you set as the password for [EMAIL PROTECTED], see <http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html>.
3) The error message indicates you are logged in as the anonymous user (username = '') who has no rights (except to the test db). You probably tried just `mysql`. Instead, you should use
mysql -u root -p
to indicate you wish to log in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be prompted for the password. Once logged in, you might want to get rid of the anonymous user, and set yourself up as a normal user.
Michael
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