Craig White wrote:
> 
> dummy me - I started the mysqld without a password and now I can't log
> in to make changes and set up users. How can I log in without a
> password? It won't let me log in without a password but there never was
> any - it's a new installation.
> 
> Craig
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My notes on how to break into, er, I mean, change the root password for
mysql:

# killall mysqld
# safe_mysqld -Sg &
# mysql mysql
mysql> select * from user;
mysql> update user set Password=password("newpasswd") where
User="root";  (or whatever your root user is called)

George