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

[Bill McDevitt (Home)]

Oops, my bad on the HTML.  Thanks for all of your help.  While the posts
crossed in the mail, I found the answer myself, too.

Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Donavan Stanley" <jdonavan at jdonavan.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Goofed up root password for mySQL...


> 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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