password peculiarities

2001-06-21 Thread Peter H. Burris
Lately, I have been suffering the winds of misfortune with respect to user AND root password acceptance. It seems I have granted the root password correctly finally, but to date, though the SQL syntax gets accepted for changing the user password, the user can not log in WITH the -p switch; she CA

aggravating failure symptoms and steps to remedy them...

2001-06-19 Thread Peter H. Burris
I'm a sysadmin who created mysql installs for users on linux x86 boxen; I had to create self-contained, architecture-specific packages to comply with our in-house means of handling software in my department. That took three weeks to fine-tune and distribute and mysql seemed to run out of the box

deceptively simple question

2001-06-01 Thread Peter H. Burris
ers and grant/revoke privileges, simply deleting them has eluded me. -- ***+*** *** [] *** *** Peter H. Burris, [] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Unix System Admin []