Re: setting root psswd on Win2K ??

2002-01-10 Thread Gerald Clark
You can't login as plain old nobody. The default mysql user is your unix user, so if you are logged into unix as root , and entered mysql you were logged into mysql as root. You appear to have been logged in as mysql. If the user mysql has full privileges, then there was nothing to prevent the

Re: setting root psswd on Win2K ??

2002-01-10 Thread Gerald Clark
However, you are running WIN2K, not unix as i assumed in my previous post. There still must be some default user which apparently has full privileges. Bryan Capitano wrote: Having some problems setting root password on MySQL. Can anybody help me? I've just installed MySQL 3.23.38 on a Windows

RE: setting root psswd on Win2K ??

2002-01-10 Thread Todd Williamsen
Gerald... He isn't on a Unix box, he is on a Win2k box -Original Message- From: Gerald Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:46 AM To: Bryan Capitano Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: setting root psswd on Win2K ?? You can't login as plain old nobody

Re: setting root psswd on Win2K ??

2002-01-10 Thread Bryan Capitano
januari 2002 8:51 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: setting root psswd on Win2K ?? Having some problems setting root password on MySQL. Can anybody help me? I've just installed MySQL 3.23.38 on a Windows 2000 server. I'm following the directions in the documenation for setting the root password

setting root psswd on Win2K ??

2002-01-09 Thread Bryan Capitano
Having some problems setting root password on MySQL. Can anybody help me? I've just installed MySQL 3.23.38 on a Windows 2000 server. I'm following the directions in the documenation for setting the root password: mysql -u root mysql mysqlUPDATE user mysqlSET password=password('mynewpass')