On Sun, 27 May 2001, David Loszewski wrote:
when you first install mysql server does it assign a default password
becuase it tells me to enter these in to make a password for my server,
but I don't know what the heck to do with them, but when I try them it
says access denied
Go to http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/o/Connecting.html and also read through
http://www.fsai.fh-trier.de/system/doku/MySQL/manual_Privilege_system.html#C
onnecting
In the Linux source download there is also a script to reset the user and
password, which was root and no password.
Hope it helps ;-)