Re: Windows - logging into MySQL

[Cal Evans]

Hi,

If you've just installed it then the root user has no password.
Change the root user to have a password then you will have to specify 
the -p parameter on the command line before you can log in. (Or you can 
put it in your local my.cnf file)

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Beauford wrote:
> I just installed MySQL 3.23 (the only one I could get to work) and I find
> that I can log into the server just by typing mysql at the DOS prompt. Ho do
> make it so you have to use a user name and password to get in.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Running on Win2k Advance Server.
> 
> 
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