Re: unable to change root password on Mac OSX 10.5.2

[Warren Young]

Olga Lyashevska wrote:
> e7253:mysql olichka$ /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql

Try:

	$ /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p

It looks like you aren't logging into MySQL as root, so you don't have 
permission to set the root password.  (If you don't give -u, it uses 
your OS X short user name as the MySQL user, which probably doesn't exist.)