On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 08:52 -0700, Barry Yu wrote: > In FC6, first time to start MySQL and try to create passwor for root > user but failed, I login as root and did the following commands; > > [root@localhost <mailto:root@localhost> ~]# > > service mysqld start > > Starting MySQL: [OK] > > [root@localhost ~]# mysqladmin -u root password mypassword123 I think you need to use -p mypassword123 ^^^^ Regards, Patrick