MySQL and the lost root password – part one
OK, so two days back from a wonderful honeymoon and a little rusty on the system, I did ‘something’ relating to investigating an old Moveable Type installation which wasn’t working, in phpmyadmin which in turn knocked on to some other applications all based around MySQL. The gist being that I had a wrong password for the root account. Suddenly I’m locked out of the database, a Content Management System is floundering and I’m sweating. Tonight I’m waiting on this MySQL Access Denied error fix to work.
As I understand it, error *1045 Access Denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’, simply relates to an incorrect password.
(PS – despite the drama this is on a test server where you might expect these things to happen)
See Part two shortly
