Re: Ubuntu MySQL install with Virtualmin - password problems with 16.04.4 server

[Quoted] On 29/03/18 19:09, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
> I am able to get in to mysql by simply using "mysql --user=root" as
> superuser on the machine console - so there is not problem getting
> access to the database.
>
> I don't understand how it is that I can assign a root password as part
> of the Virtualmin install, which Virtualmin then uses to administer the
> database - but I cannot use that same password to log in, even at the
> console.

But the above seems to induicated that you can do exactly that?

I am confused.

'I am able to get in to mysql by simply using "mysql --user=root" as superuser on the machine console' suggests that there is a functional root account and password.

That works on a console.

Explain what your real problem is?

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