Re: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access

[Pintér Tibor]

Varuna Seneviratna írta:
> I am using WinXP.I am wanted to shutdown MySQL service from the command line
> and ran the command "mysqladmin" -p root shutdown next the root password was
> asked for,I entered the correct password, when I entered the password the
> below displayed error was the result
> 
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'
> 
> 
> 
> How can I correct this?
> Is this because of a firewall preventing access to port 3306?If a firewall
> is preventing access how was it able to ask for the password?
> 
> I have Nortan Internet Security trial version running and the windows
> firewall is disabled.If this is caused by a firewall barrier please tell me
> how to open the port in Nortan Internet Security.

1. Nortan -> Norton
2. man mysql -> mysql -ufoo -pbar

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