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

[Quoted] On 04/03/18 05:32, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> However, I find it equally likely that we are all just feeding a troll.
> Consider the (non-)"name" of the OP, and then:
>
> ,-<news:p9ic69$4e3$1_at_dont-email.me>
> |
> | I am using the latest Virtualmin install script, and a fresh clean
> | install of the latest 16.04.4 server distro but I still keep getting
> | locked out.
>
> ,-<news:p9ja58$dqm$1_at_dont-email.me>
> |
> | 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.
> ^^^^^^^
> On their face, those statements are *mutually* *contradictory*.
> Either it is possible to log in into MySQL on the console, or it is not.

[Quoted] [Quoted] It's not at all contradicting, he expect that the password he provided at the installation for mysql would be set as the mysql root users password, he can't login when using option -p when he login from console.

[Quoted] Reading some of the posts had given you that, but I know you like to make your opinion and trash others with your wrong assumptions.

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 //Aho