From: Date: July 2 2003 3:05pm
Subject: Re: MySQL Password
List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/144257
Message-Id: <bdulb1$a6f$1@ezekiel.office.ensita.net>

"Nils Valentin" <nils@stripped> wrote:
> Hi Victoria,
> 
> I enclose a sample.
> 
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html
> 
> ...
> 2. Restart mysqld with the --skip-grant-tables option. 
> ...
> 
> How would you understand this ?
> 
> restarting mysqld or starting safe_mysqld ??

Start mysqld with --skip-grant-tables option :) safe_mysqld hasn't option --skip-grant-tables.
You can start mysqld using safe_mysqld and mysql.server scripts or mysqld directly. There is another section in the MySQL manual that describes how to start MySQL server.
 
> Don't get me wrong the manual is not bad, but it leaves a lot of 
> interpretation or vague guessing room for some descriptions.
> 
> Anyway having spoken to "somebody" from MySQL AB  I understand that they are 
> working on it and hopefully make the manual better than it already is.  ;-)

Sure.


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