From: Michael Parchet Date: April 8 2012 4:12pm Subject: ERROR 1045 unable to connect to the mysql server List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/community/385 Message-Id: <4F81B8E4.40900@sunrise.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have install the mysql5 @5.1.60_0 and the mysql5 @5.1.60_0 serve package via macport. I used the mysql_secure_installation5 with my root password and now there are only the root user can access mysql. But if I run mysql5 I get an error. Here is my console output. mysql5 -u root -p myRootPassword. BatAdminEnter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) Do you know this error ? Can you help me please ? Tanks Best regards mparchet