MySQL install password?
steve
sfreilly at roadrunner.com
Sat Jan 10 16:37:15 UTC 2009
stan wrote:
> I am trying to get ampache running on my Ubuntu machine. This package uses
> MySQL. I looked at the MySQL 5.0 docs in /usr/share/docs, and it syas there
> that I should be able to set the MySQL root user password with:
>
> /usr/bin/mysql -u root -D mysql -e "update user set
> password=password('new-password') where user='root'"
>
> But when I try that, it fails, saying I need a passwrd. How can I find out
> what password got set by the installer?
>
try this:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/reset-the-root-password-on-mysql.html
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Steve Reilly
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