On 7/28/07, Barry Yu <barryyu-cts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As I said, this is the first time I started MySQL and never had any > password under any user name, I was trying to create a password for user > root after initial installation of MySQL as the book said, unless this > is out of date and no required any more? Or I have to do something in > addition (That book didn't mentioned it) > Barry As Patrick pointed out, you need the '-p' option before the password: mysqladmin -u USER -p PASSWORD Webmin is very handy for configuring MySQL - that's generally what I use to set things up. Chris
