mysql error and phpmyadmin how-to
Shawn Guillemette
shawn at guillemette.org
Thu Sep 18 18:50:33 PDT 2003
this was part of the howto that I followed..
mysqladmin -u root password newpassword
I had also created a database already.. however 24 hours later I cant seem
to get it to work...I know it something stupid..,.,. ":-)----- Original
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From: "Barry Hawkins" <barryhawkins at mac.com>
To: "Shawn Guillemette" <shawn at guillemette.org>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: mysql error and phpmyadmin how-to
> 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
> All Things Computed
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>
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