On Tuesday 25 April 2006 7:28 pm, Ali Helmy wrote: > Hey mates, > > I have a clean installation of MySQL 5, with a user root and no password... > and for some reason, MySQL-Administrator fails to modify user passwords... > > So can someone tell me how to set a new password for the user root, and how > to create new users for MySQL through the command line? Thanks > > -- > Cheers, > A. Helmy > ================== > One Life... LIVE It > ================== I did this also. If I remember you need to use mysql_config. If not there is a detailed set of directions on http://www.brainbell.com/. -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger!