On 11/05/07, Alex Powell alexp@exscien.com wrote:
If you typed that exactly, your password should be "passwd", not wikiDB1...
I love the MySQL command line client.
`$ mysql -u wikiDB1user -p wikiDB1`
This reads as
* start the MySQL command line client * my username is wikiDB1user * prompt me for my password * select wikiDB1
The -p switch confuses a lot of people. To specify the password on the command line, you do something like `-ppassword`, i.e. no space. If the switch is specified as-is, without anything immediately following it, then it causes the client to prompt for the password.
Rob Church