Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/01/06 23:53

Bob wrote:
> I'm just starting PHP and MySQL - and really like the book by Welling
> and Thomsom.
>
> I've installed MySQL on my WinXP desktop, along with Apache and PHP. I
> have not figured out how to set a password for the root account. I've
> been able to set up a user account for myself, with a password, but not
> the root account. I understand this is not ideal.
>
> I've tried setting the password in My.ini but it doesn't seem to work.
> I must be doing something wrong. Can anyone suggest what I should be
> doing. TIA
>

Well, for one thing you're asking a MySQL question in a PHP newsgroup.

Try comp.databases.mysql.

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