Re: [cobalt-developers] Mysqladmin error

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"John D. Gorena" <Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I installed the
http://pkg.nl.cobalt.com/i386/RaQ3-RaQ4-MySQL-3.23.36-1.pkg
> and even changed the password and all seemed to work OK.  But when I try
to
> create a list called 'mylist' (or any other name) I get the error that you
see
> below.
>
> [root@ns1 mysql]# mysqladmin create mylist
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO)'
> [root@ns1 mysql]#
>
> What am I doing wrong?

I think you answered the question yourself.  You changed the password for
the mysql root user, but you didn't supply one for the mysqladmin command.
Read about -p and -u flags by doing 'mysqladmin --help'.

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