Quoting Nate Carlson (natecars at real-time.com): > Are you just hitting enter for the password? That should work fine.. bash# mysql -u root mysql mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD ('new_password') WHERE user='root'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; From this point on, if you need to access MySQL as the MySQL root user, you will need to use mysql -u root -p and enter your new_password. Remember that MySQL user names have nothing to do with Unix user names (login names). -- Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9