Re: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied

[Peter Brawley]

> Shouldn't I be able to connect anonymously?

Not if MySQL is set up correctly.

> I also get it with user root so i cannot connect period

Did you set a password for user root?

To find out what the settings are, start the server with --skip-grant-tables, run the mysql client program without arguments, then execute the query ...

select user,host,password from mysql.user;