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cannot change 'root' user password
Posted by: Joe Mesot
Date: July 09, 2008 06:59AM

I just installed Mysql 5.0.51b for Mac OS X 10.3.9 using the binary installer package from the MySQL website.

MySQL installed fine and I can get it running. However, when I try to change the 'root' user password by typing :

-u root mysql UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(notU) WHERE User="root";

at the mysql> prompt, I get this error message:

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-u root mysql UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(notU) WHERE User="root"' at line 1

how is there an error in my syntax?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Please note, that I am new to both mySQL and the Unix core system of Mac OS X. I do not know terminal commands well at all and all of the reference books I have for MySQL are for older versions. Thank you so much for you time and patience.

Joe.

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