Incoming from Robert Baron:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling <keel...@nucleus.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked
> > well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I
> > haven't tried everything yet, and I'd rather come up with a plan than
> > work from flawed notes.
> >
> > On Debian, how do you set the mysql root user pword? I've tried
> > mysql-admin, but I don't know what I'm doing. dpkg-reconfigure was no
> > help.
> >
> > Once I can get in, I can create a user and work from there.
> >
> > (0) [root] infidel /root_ mysql
> > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
> > password: NO)
> >
> > Once I'm in, I can:
> >
> > update mysql.user set password=password(...) where user='root';
> >
> > How's this supposed to be done?
>
> have you tried the following?
>
> mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD
Thanks man. I've spent hours hunting my notes and history for that.
I remember doing that. Now:
(0) [root] infidel /root_ mysqladmin -u root password '.........'
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'
mysqld is running, but this is the first time I've been anywhere near
this mysql install (and I really hate being a dba. :-)
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