Thanks you all for the help. It seems that when you uninstall the RPM, it
does not remove the var/lib/mysql directory. Once I manually removed that,
I was able to follow the MySQL manual.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Kline [mailto:bkline@stripped]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 8:28 AM
To: Tom Tilmant
Cc: mysql@stripped
Subject: Re: Access denied for root@localhost
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Tom Tilmant wrote:
> I have looked at the docs and have try uninstalling and reinstalling mysql
> 3.22.26a a few times but still get this error 'access denied for
> root@loccalhost PASSWD = NO' when I follow the install information of
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root passwd 123456. I am on Red Hat 6.0 and have
> seen it installed on a different machine. I can ping localhost and know
> that the address is resolving. Has someone else had this problem and
figure
> out the solution?
>
> Tom Tilmant
>
>
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Have you looked at section 6.13 of the MySQL manual ("Causes of Access
denied errors")?
http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Privilege_system.html#Access_deni
ed
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Bob Kline
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