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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:42:12 -0500
From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To: Shawn Guillemette <shawn@guillemette.org>
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Subject: Re: error with mysql when doing mysql -u root
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:55:30AM -0700, Shawn Guillemette wrote:
> After setting the mysql root user passwd I get this when trying to log in. 
> 
> # mysql -u root
> ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)
> 
> Just after the install of mysql I had created a database as a test successfully..
> 
IIRC, it's: 'mysql -u root -p mypassword'

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey