Re: Root user

2005-01-11 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. You should start mysqld-nt with --skip-grant-tables option and manually update the user table. Connect to server using mysql command line client. Execute the following statements: use mysql; update user set Grant_priv='Y' where user='root' and host='localhost'; Restart the se

re: Root user password changing

2002-12-16 Thread Egor Egorov
On Saturday 14 December 2002 23:07, tlr7425 at garnet dot acns dot fsu dot edu wrote: > how exactly do I change the Root user's password for mysql? > > like this? : > > mysqladmin -u root -p'newpasswd' ? (without a space between -p and > 'newpasswd' ?) > > and, if that is correct, I guess I'd

RE: Root user password changing

2002-12-14 Thread Adolfo Bello
After loging in mysql as root, enter the command: SET PASSWORD FOR root=password('the_new_password'); > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Root user password changing >

Re: Root user Access denied - Please Help!

2002-05-23 Thread Egor Egorov
Miretsky, Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 8:41:57 PM, you wrote: M> I tried to create a password for the root user in a new installation of M> MySQL by typing M> % mysql -u root mysql M> Then typing and update statement like M> Update user set password = "somepassword" where user="root"; You must use

Re: Root user Access denied - Please Help

2002-05-22 Thread Ryan Hatch
yes, you needed to use the PASSWORD( ) function mysqladmin -h hostname -u user password 'new password' -Ryan Hatch "Miretsky, Anya" wrote: > I tried to create a password for the root user in a new installation of > MySQL by typing > % mysql -u root mysql > Then typing and update statement li

Re: root user Access Denied

2002-03-15 Thread Doug Thompson
I've been watching this thread and wonder if not following instructions may be contributing to the present confusion. On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:38:02 +0200, Egor Egorov wrote: >>>Show me the output of the following: >>> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'username'@'hostname'; > >RQ> output: >RQ> mysql> show gra

Re: root user Access Denied

2002-03-15 Thread Egor Egorov
Rob, Thursday, March 14, 2002, 10:15:54 PM, you wrote: >>Show me the output of the following: >> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'username'@'hostname'; RQ> output: RQ> mysql> show grants for 'root@localhost'; RQ> ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near RQ> 'grants for 'root@localhost'' at lin

Re: root user Access Denied

2002-03-14 Thread Rob Quenzer
>>Show me the output of the following: >> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'username'@'hostname'; output: mysql> show grants for 'root@localhost'; ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'grants for 'root@localhost'' at line 1 I noticed that my user table doesn't seem to have all the fields it

RE: root user: required to exist after initial setup?

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff Corliss
--- Simon Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeff > As long as you have a user that has access to all of > MySQL and can enter > from root on the systems, what you call it is not > important. > Infact it is a good thing to change the root user > name for security. > Simon Thanks for the respon

RE: root user: required to exist after initial setup?

2002-01-07 Thread Simon Green
Hi Jeff As long as you have a user that has access to all of MySQL and can enter from root on the systems, what you call it is not important. Infact it is a good thing to change the root user name for security. Simon -Original Message- From: Jeff Corliss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: