[OT] Mysql advice

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:59 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >> It's not lost or mistyped.  I can enter 'mysql -u root -p' and enter the 
> >> correct password and it works fine.  But, used to I could just enter 
> >> 'mysql' at the bash prompt and I would go straight into 'mysql>' without 
> >> needing a password.
> > ----
> > that requires configuration file /root/.my.cnf
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> 
> I did.  No change.
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as I first replied in the thread, mysql considers root connecting via
socket and root connecting via network to be 2 different users and thus
there should be 2 different root users set up in mysql, one just simply
root and one root at localhost

Craig