From: Michael Dykman Date: April 8 2010 8:36pm Subject: Re: Problem with installing MySQL List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/221184 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If you want to specify the password itself on the command line use '--password' (double hyphen). '-p' requests interactive password prompt. - michael On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Carsten Pedersen wrot= e: > don't have a space between '-p' and 'password', i.e. -ppassword > > / Carsten > > alba.albetti skrev: >> >> I've just installed MySQL on Windows 2000. >> I've opened the MS-DOS windows and I've written >> >C:\Programs\MySQL\...\bin\mysqladmin -u root -p password mysql2010 >> After the enter the prompt says >Enter password: =A0and I've given >> and I get >> >> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed >> error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)' >> >> After installing MySQL what do I have to do left? >> Sorry my this is my firt time with MySQL >> >> Thanks! >> >> > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: =A0 =A0http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=3Dmdykman@gmail= .com > > --=20 - michael dykman - mdykman@stripped May the Source be with you.