On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Rolf Hopkins wrote:
> Fresh installation? Then you don't need -p option. If not, what password
> are you using when it ask you to enter the password. It's not newpassword
> as you typed in the prompt, it's your old password
Hi Rolf,
Thanks for your helpful comment. I am indeed installing MySQL for the
first time so I don't need the -p option. It would have been nice if
the output of the RPM file had provided this kind of information instead
of shouting at me in big caps, uselessly:
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER !
This is done with:
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password 'new-password'
Luckily there are people on this list to give real help.
And forgive me all if I misinterpreted the meaning of the big caps in
the RPM output but big caps means shouting and people should not
shout a word of caution without thinking about it twice otherwise
it comes across as condescending hatred.
But nobody is perfect so let's forget about it.
I'll even take it as plain miscommunication.
Back to MySQL... now things work!
[root@tulip /root]# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password rootpassword
[root@tulip /root]# echo $?
0
Thanks a lot, and thanks to everyone,
-- Neil
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