Re: ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for user

[James Preston]

well.....finally got the kinks out altogether for remote access, YEA!!!!!

Turned out upgrading is harder than starting from clean slate. Because I was upgrading, I did not remove a previous install which used a path of /opt/mysql.5.5.8 This install wrote a link in /usr/local/bin to the /opt directory. My environment path included this path before /usr/bin hence was pulling up an old version of mysql client causing problems. Once I figured this out and removed old links to old mysql installations problems went away.

I hope this helps somebody else in the future.