mysql error and phpmyadmin how-to

[Barry Hawkins]

On Thursday, Sep 18, 2003, at 23:57 US/Eastern, Shawn Guillemette wrote:

>  get the following error when trying to log in to mysql as root like 
> so ..
>
> # mysql -u root -p
> Enter password:
> ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root at localhost' (Using password: 
> YES)
>
> I'm issuing this command as root.
>
>
> Also as root I have attempted to change the passwd..
>
>
> # mysqladmin -u root password newpassword
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
>
>
> mysql version --> mysql-server-3.23.55 Multithreaded SQL database 
> (server)
>
>
>
> Also Looking for a good how-to on phpmyadmin..
>
>     I installed from the ports collection (phpMyAdmin-2.3.2) Just not 
> sure what direction to head in now..
>
>
>
> Thanks for your time..
>
> Shawn
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Shawn,
	The user named root in MySQL is completely separate from your root 
user for your BSD installation.  It initially has no password, so 
"mysql -u root" without the -p should work for you.  I have always 
installed from source code builds, so I am not sure as to whether or 
not the port does this for you.  Have you run the mysql_install_db 
script to initialize the databases in MySQL?  If not, you could 
potentially be seeing a situation where the permission tables for the 
daemon are not available, so you are being rejected out-of-hand.  I 
would try the "mysql -u root" first, if you have run the script (or if 
the port runs the script for you; regrettably I do not know if it does).

Regards,
-- 
Barry C. Hawkins
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