corrupted passwd

2003-09-29 Thread Saqib Ali 
Hello All,

I think the passwd on my installation of mysql of
mysql-standard-4.0.14-pc-linux-i686 is corrupted. I can't login with the
root account. I was able to do so till last week.

I trying to follow the instructions on resetting the passwd, but I get the
following err msg.

# ./mysqld --skip-grant-tables Fatal error:
Please read Security section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!

Any ideas?

Saqib Ali
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Re: corrupted passwd

2003-09-29 Thread Stefan Hinz 
Saqib,

 I think the passwd on my installation of mysql of
 mysql-standard-4.0.14-pc-linux-i686 is corrupted. I can't login with the
 root account. I was able to do so till last week.

 I trying to follow the instructions on resetting the passwd, but I get the
 following err msg.

 # ./mysqld --skip-grant-tables Fatal error:
 Please read Security section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!

 Any ideas?

Try starting the MySQL server with the --user option, like this:

shell mysqld --user=anyone-but-not-root --skip-grant-tables 

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