gracias - I ended up reinstalling because I undoubtedly did something that I
shouldn't have done. MySQL works, Horde works - learning is a painful
process.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> sinck@ugive.com
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 2:06 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: mysqld help
>
>
>
>
> \_ I'm trying to set up mysqld and when I run...
> \_
> \_ mysqladmin -u hostname.domainname.com password 'password'
> \_ (yes, I have substituted the proper names and password)
> \_
> \_ I am denied access:
> \_ connect to server at ... failed:
> \_ error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@...' (Using password: 'YES')
> \_
> \_ I am quite certain that this is a necessary step and I can't
> figure this one
> \_ out - any help?
>
> See if you can say
>
> mysql -p mysql
>
> and see if you can connect to the database raw-ly.
>
> if so:
>
> update user set password = password('new-pass') where user = 'root';
>
> David
>
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