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Date:      Sat, 31 Aug 2002 13:49:13 -0700
From:      "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com>
To:        Jeff Jeter <gsfgf@softhome.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mysql won't let me in
Message-ID:  <3D70C959.19129.39875B56@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20020831114147.39c550b7.gsfgf@softhome.net>

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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



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