That was it. Once I removed PASSWORD, it went through, and I'm able to restart
MySQL now.
Thanks for your help.
Jesse
- Original Message -
From: Ian Simpson
To: Jesse
Cc: MySQL List
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:48 AM
Subject: Re: Access denied for user '
MySQL normally only checks the privilege tables on start-up.
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 20:35 -0400, Jesse wrote:
> OK. This is driving me Nutz 8-p
>
> Any time I try to restart mysql, I get the error, "Access denied for user
> 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost'"
Do you login via sock or network ?
Didja change the passwd for localhost and % ?
--Original Message--
From: Jesse
To: MySQL List
Sent: Jul 21, 2008 17:35
Subject: Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost'
OK. This is driving me Nutz 8-p
Any time I try
OK. This is driving me Nutz 8-p
Any time I try to restart mysql, I get the error, "Access denied for user
'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost'"
My understanding is that the password for the debian-sys-maint user is found
in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf So, I edit that, a