<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.9.92"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi I use Draper Drake and installed the Mysql 5 packages. Then I followed the instructions of the Mysql documentation for instance issuing the following command: >mysql -u root -p and ended up with this failure: >mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) # Error: 1045 SQLSTATE: 28000 (ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR) Message: Access denied for user '%s'@'%s' (using password: %s) Does any one know how to solve this issue. I just want to do some local work on my laptop. How do I get the access, or where do I need to configure things different. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Holger </BODY> </HTML>