Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:51:12 -0400 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> To: michael@327.ca Cc: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with MySQL port Message-ID: <3B02F650.D537094C@thehousleys.net> References: <01051612525900.00561@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> <3B02E3E4.C012CAE1@journalstar.com> <01051614483002.00561@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net>
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Michael O'Henly wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, Tony. > > OK, I've tried: # mysqladmin -u root -p -password "[password]" > I get the "Enter password: " prompt. > Then I hit <Return> > > ...and I get: > > mysqladmin: Unknown command: "[password]" > > So, I think there must be more to it than this. I'll take a closer look at > the Changelog to try to figure out how the client's default behaviour has > changed. (This makes sense because MySQL has been updated since I last > installed it.) > > Thanks again. You need to do 1 of 2 things, to enter a password for the first time you need to do mysqladmin -u root password or if you have a password mysqladmin -p -u root password or mysqladmin -u root --password=<password> password man 1 mysqladmin might also be of some help Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "...there's no idea that's so good you can't ruin it with a few well-placed idiots." -- Charles Spickman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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