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From:Egor Egorov Date:December 6 2003 10:39am
Subject:Re: can't seem to reset password
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jabbott@stripped wrote:
> 
> I have been reading and following the instructions from:
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Resetting_permissions.html
> 
> But, if I do:
> ./bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
> And then I:
> mysqladmin -u root password 'mypassword'
> I get:
> mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'You must have privileges to update
> tables in the mysql database to be able to change passwords for others'

Flush privilege tables and then change password.
> 
> this is a 3.2 install that was working just fine but I just did an upgrade to 4.1.  I
> think I did the ?update permissions? script ok when I did the install.  But is this the
> problem?



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can't seem to reset passwordjabbott5 Dec
  • Re: can't seem to reset passwordEgor Egorov6 Dec