Posted by Rich on 10/17/06 18:29

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:39:23 GMT, Nospam wrote...
>
>I am on win98se, when installing mysql server 5 I did not get a prompt to
>setup a root user and a root password, even with detailed configuration, I
>assume there is a default root user and default root password, does anyone
>know what it is?
>
>thanks
>
>

I believe the "root" user is setup without a password. The "mysqladmin" command
has a lot of tools that you can use including changing the password...

http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqladmin.html


Rich
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