We are having exactly the same problem on Debian Wheezy - did you ever find
a solution Justin?
We have set root_password to the new password we want to use and
old_root_password => ''. The /.my.cnf is created with the root password but
root's password is still blank (if you check the the mysql.
feature - strange that it does not error though!
On Wednesday, 23 April 2014 20:06:31 UTC+1, Cristian Falcas wrote:
>
> Is this a typo?
> rm -f /.my.cnf
>
> I think it should be /root/.my.cnf
>
> Best regards
> Cristian Falcas
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:01