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

On 03/04/18 05:58, J.O. Aho wrote:
> 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$1_at_dont-email.me>
>> |
[Quoted] >> | I am using the latest Virtualmin install script, and a fresh clean
>> | install of the latest 16.04.4 server distro but I still keep getting
>> | locked out.
>>
>> ,-<news:p9ja58$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.

I too think that contradictory statemements appear to have been made, but without clarification from the OP we are all just wanking in the wind.

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