With databases, you need to do careful research first and foremost. Otherwise you make a big mess and it becomes far worse to fix. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html Bob Mike Wright wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 16 February 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: >>> All the heavier-weight database engines have their own user >>> accounts, so >>> they can grant or restrict permissions to various databases and tables >>> based on who the user is. MySQL does this. Even though mysql has a root >>> user that user is totally separate from the OS root account. You can >>> also have a mysql user account named mickey even though your host box >>> does not have such a user. So think only in terms of the defined MySQL >>> users. >>> >>> You need to reset the MySQL root user password. >>> >>> There may be no password to start with. I wonder what happens if you >>> just press enter when prompted for the password. If there is no >>> password, then you can set one using mysqladmin. When you first start >>> the mysqld server using 'service start mysqld' the syntax of the >>> command >>> is explained to you right on the terminal window. >>> >>> One more point. If you want to assign a password to a user on a >>> specific >>> host machine, such as 'mickey'@'mickeymouse.m1.org' then I believe that >>> at the time someone attempts to log in with that username the actual >>> machine name must resolve correctly on dns to 'mickeymouse.m1.org' or >>> the user 'mickey' must have a password defined for the localhost >>> machine >>> ('mickey'@'localhost'). >>> >>> To do reset the root password correctly, you can find copious >>> details on >>> the MySQL knowledgebase. Go to www.mysql.com and search off their >>> knowledgebase. There is a method described for changing the password >>> for >>> the root user, but it is fairly complicated. I've used it successfully >>> once or twice before when I made a mess of my own mysql root password. >> >> I have now done that procedure twice, setting a different passwd the >> last time in case mysql has a password length limit less that the >> size of my root pw. >> >> It didn't help, I'm still getting exactly the same error. How can I >> nuke it all & start from a truly scratch install? > > Hi Gene, > > Before you do that I have an idea. > > I don't install MySql very often but I seem to recall an alert given > upon installation advising the use of mysqladmin to set the initial > root password. On a clean install the password is the empty string > (return). > > "mysqladmin password 'secretcode'" > > After that you use the GRANT command to control access to the rdb. > > Hope I'm not all wet here. Sometimes my CRS gets in the way ;) > > Mike Wright > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
