[plug] mysql installation

William Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Sun Jul 11 14:29:44 WST 2004


Neat, thats worth knowing!

BillK

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 14:28, Mark O'Shea wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 10:08, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Try "mysql -u root at localhost -p mysql" and just press enter when it asks
> > for the password.
> > 
> > Also, mysql logins usually use the originators machine name as part of
> > the login name: you are trying to login from the localhost, as
> > root at localhost?
> > 
> > BillK
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 20:53, Dave Dartnall wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:31 pm, Jim Householder wrote:
> > > > Dave Dartnall wrote:
> > > Thanks Jim and William Kenworthy...
> > > I've removed and reinstalled twice, and get the feeling that the MDK has done 
> > > their installation with a root password. I have indeed rtfm with little 
> > > success - any effort to execute mysql -u root mysql or similar have all 
> > > resulted in denial of access, contrary to what's described in the docs. I'm 
> > > stumped. - but still trying. Very.
> > > It's not easy reading those docs - there are over 700 pages of 'em.
> > > Dave D
> > > _______________________________________________
> 
> Also note that you can stop the root (mysql) password getting in your
> way by stopping mysql and using this line to start it again:
> safe_mysqld --skip-grant-tables
> 
> Then just use this to log in:
> mysql -u root
> and it will take you in.  When you are in you can use the usual:
> flush privileges;
> to get the password restriction back.
> 
> Regards,




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