mysql40 and FBSD 4.9
Dima Dorfman
dima at trit.org
Sun Feb 8 04:28:05 PST 2004
Stefan Moro <moro at medic.chalmers.se> wrote:
> Afetr the
> installation I was trying to set the mysql root-users password with
> mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
>
> when i tried that I got the following message:
>
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: 'root at localhost' (Using password: NO)'
"Using password: NO" means that the client tried to authenticate
without sending a password. Try:
mysqladmin -u root -p password 'new-password'
Note the added -p flag, which should cause the client to prompt you
for the current root password.
Hope this helps,
Dima.
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