I ended up being able to set the password via some select commands. Here
are those commands if anybody is interested.
mysql -u root mysql
UPDATE user SET Password = PASSWORD ('new_password')
WHERE user = 'root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
The password was blank but for some reason /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root
password 'new-password' would not work.
Thank you Ron and Mike for your assistance.
-Kirt
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Mark Walter wrote:
> > > frodo:~# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password blah
> > > /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> > > error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES)'
>
> had the same problem. My sysadmin possibly raised a password during
> installation. So the database constrained it from root using the
> password which I didn't know. One possible solution was to reinvoke
> the whole procedure with:
>
> > dpkg-reconfigure -plow mysql-server
>
> I have sudo so hopefully you also got it.
>
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