[rt-users] mysql password problems

[Justin Findlay]

On 5/5/06, Romeo Theriault <romeotheriault at gmail.com> wrote:
> mysql -u username -pPassword
>
> works for me.  No space between -p and the password. Like an earlier
> poster said. If you haven't set a root password, there is none.

Indeed.  My mistake was quite obvious once I learned of it.  In
following the RHEL4InstallGuide I had copied and pasted

mysqladmin -u root password newpass

into the shell and must have forgotten about doing so, because the
password was literally 'newpass'. (-:


Justin