Incorrect documentation at Server - Databases page

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Monday 10 July 2006 20:17, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I followed the guide at:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/databases.html
> to install mysql.
>
> THe instruction that says the command:
> sudo mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password newrootsqlpassword
>
> should be executed leads to an error message on my Dapper system. The
> error message is as follows:
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'
>
> To fix this, that line needs to be changed to:
> sudo mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password newrootsqlpassword -p
>
> and then at the password prompt, one needs to enter the root password
> set in the previous line (sudo mysqladmin -u root password
> newrootsqlpassword)
>
> I supposed someone might be interested in fixing that, and updating
> the documentation.
>
> Thank you,
> Carthik.
> --
> Ph.D. Candidate
> University of Central Florida
> Homepage: http://carthik.net

Carthik,

Did you file a bug for this??  IF not I can take care of that. 

Jonathan