Incorrect documentation at Server - Databases page

[Carthik Sharma]

On 7/10/06, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> 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.

D'oh, should have checked before sending the email: There is a bug already:
https://launchpad.net/products/ubuntu-doc/+bug/49675

It says the fix has been committed? Is there another set of documents
that have the committed version? Why haven't the changes propagated to
the help.u.c. site if the fix has been committed?

Carthik.