[Sussex] Setting up MySQL under FC6

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi Brendan

On Tue, 29 May 2007 14:09:17 +0100
"Brendan Whelan" <b_whelan at mistral.co.uk> wrote:
<snip>
> 
> But when I try to connect with
> mysql -u root 
> or
> mysql -u root -pmypassword
> 
> I get a failure message 1045 Access denied for user

Its a new installation. You need to set the root password I reckon. Try
this:

mysqladmin -u root password 'mynewpassword'

mysql -u root -pmynewpassword

HTH

Cheers

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