mysql stupidity

[Matthew Flaschen]

Eelco wrote:
> I've installed a lamp server manualy a few weeks ago.
> What i wanted was a local toolkit to play around with joomla.
> 
> with phpmyadmin I added myself as user. and then deleted the root user.
> Somehow i can't get into the database...
> the next error apears on myadmin and on the shell.
> 
> Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
> same error with my name in there.
> 

See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html .

Matthew Flaschen