default login - mysqld 4 on rhel 4

[Yasushi Okubo]

Heitbrock, Denis wrote:

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>I installed the mysqld on a rhel 4 and i want to login to the database
>to change some settings but I cant. does anyone know the default root or
>mysql login to connect to the mysql database to change some settings?
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We are using rpm from mysql, but it may not work for you, but 
temporally, I used the following steps before rebuilding the grant table:
1. start mysql:
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables --old-passwords &
2. access server:
mysql -u root

yasushi

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>denis
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