On 11/05/07, Andreas Tille tillea@rki.de wrote:
... which is exactly what I intended. If you specify only -p
I know it's exactly what you intended. I was clarifying for the other, confused respondents on this thread.
So this is not the source of the problem and moreover MediaWiki would not have trouble to log in because the Password is obtained from the config file without strange syntax.
Is the password correct?
Are you using a MySQL 4.0.x server and a MySQL 4.1.x or 5.x client, which might introduce problems due to the change in password hashing/encryption/etc. between these versions? (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html)
See also http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/password-too-long.html, although this is a much rarer situation.
If MediaWiki can't connect to the database, and your credentials don't appear to work on the command line either, then you don't have a MediaWiki problem, you have a MySQL problem.
Rob Church