Re: Access Denied

[Nick Roper]

Hi Don,

the fact that you are logged into the machine as the administrator is irrelevant as far as MySQL is concerned. In order to execute a mysqladmin command you need to identify yourself as a valid MySQL user. MySQL creates some default accounts when you install it, including a root account with no password.

Try:

c:\>mysqladmin -u root -p create testdb

When prompted for a password, just hit enter.

You should really assign a password to the root account to avoid any security issues, and also create another account to use for day to day operations. See:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Post-installation.html

Nick



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Nick Roper