[mythtv-users] Goofed up root password for mySQL...

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Fri May 14 17:55:31 EDT 2004


Bill McDevitt (Home) wrote:

> Greetings!
>  
> Working through Jarod's install, and at Step 13 Set up MySQL, I had a 
> cut and paste error to the console.
>  
> I ran this command:
>  
> # mysql -u root mysql
>  
> got the mysql prompt.  Cut and pasted this command into the console, 
> but when I pasted I had grabbed part of the next line too (mysql> FLUSH):
>  
> mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('ROOT_PWD') WHERE user='root';

#1 Don't send HTML to this list
#2 If you cut and pasted that line then you set the root password for 
mysql to "ROOT_PWD" which is probably not what you want.  Jarrod 
intended for you to put your own password in there...




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