From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 31 13:52:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5218837B401 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 13:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valis.olywa.net (valis.olywa.net [216.173.192.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21FF43E4A for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 13:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corey@snowpoint.com) Received: from intrepid.snowpoint.com ([216.173.213.173]) by valis.olywa.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56662U5000L500S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 13:52:27 -0700 Received: from ([216.173.213.170]) by intrepid.snowpoint.com (Merak 4.4.2) with SMTP id HUB36795; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 13:46:56 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" To: Jeff Jeter Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 13:49:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Mysql won't let me in Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3D70C959.19129.39875B56@localhost> In-reply-to: <20020831114147.39c550b7.gsfgf@softhome.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 31 Aug 2002, at 11:41, Jeff Jeter wrote: > I installed mysql, started it with safe_mysqld, and changed the root password w/ mysql admin. mysqladmin -u root password ******** now when i try to create a databas w/ mysql admin it won't accept a pass. > > mysqladmin create mini > mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed > error: 'Access denied for user: ' root@localhost' (Using password:NO)' > Try just %mysql -u root -p Which should prompt you for the password. You might also try "root@servername" as the user ID, but that's a long shot. Corey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message