Archive for April, 2005
Set the Root Password
After installing MySQL, the first thing you’ll want to do is reset the root password for MySQL. You can achieve this using the following command:
[root@myhost]# mysqladmin -u root password new-password
Set MySQL to start automatically with the following command
[root@myhost]# /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on
Update:
A much better way to secure your installation of MySQL is to run the mysql_secure_installation [...]
