[mythtv-users] myth database access

Jim Bauer jfbauer at comcast.net
Fri May 27 04:06:24 UTC 2005


Never mind, finally got it fixed.  Figured out how to set the mythtv DB 
password and it worked after that.

On Thursday 26 May 2005 21:11, Jim Bauer wrote:
> I was trying to make a backup of the database via
>
> 	mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c > mythtv_backup.sql
>
> as shown in <http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.5>
> However I got an error
>
> 	mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user: 'mythtv at localhost'
> (Using password: YES) when trying to connect
>
> And then folowed the link at the above URL to
> <http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html#modify_perm_mysql>
> and ran one of the mysql commands at the end.
>
> Now I can do the backup command, but mythtv can no longer access
> the database.
>
> Any hints on how to recover from the hole I dug?


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