mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ' your current password ' WITH GRANT Insert the host and password This section will allow to insert the host's name and user account ...

mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.77, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.1 I need to work on MySQL about once every six months, so it's always an exciting re-learning experience [root@server ~]# ...

Have you recently upgraded MySQL from a 4.0x version ? Then you should try setting your password again using the function OLD_PASSWORD ().<BR><BR>This also might be a result of an incorrect hosts file ...