On 05/17/2011 07:32 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > I want to experiment with Wordpress, so it seemed a good idea to set up a > local copy. Or maybe not. :-) I started following the guide http://www.if- > not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-wordpress-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ > - until I got to step 3 - connect to mysql as root. How do you do that when > you haven't set up passwords? I must be missing something really obvious, but > I'm absolutely stuck. Can someone kick me in the right direction please? > By default MySQL root password is empty; You can change it by running: mysqladmin -u root password $MY_NEW_PASSWORD or mysql_secure_installation PS. This is Fedora/KDE specific list, for general question you should use users list instead: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Athmane Madjoudj RHCE _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org