Topic: mysqladmin

[Lloyd Keen]

I'm having trouble using msqladmin. I followed the howto closely but I keep getting "Access denied" error messages when typing in #mysqladmin -u root -p mynewpassword. I think I might have stuffed up when I changed the root password using #mysqladmin - root password mynewpassword. I probably should have substituted mynewpassword for a valid password. I've tried editing the config.inc.php3 file and replacing the mynewpassword part but still no luck. Can anyone offer any suggestions. In other words how can I connect to mysqladmin from the prompt.

[Dan Brown]

There isn't supposed to be a space between -p and the password; this may be causing your problem.  However, try just "mysqladmin -u root -p"; it'll ask you for the password.  If that doesn't work, there's documentation on www.mysql.com describing how to get around this problem.