I seem to have forgotten how to get into MySQL and work. (It's been a while but I'm starting up again. I get these errors: ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'libes' I am doing this on SuSE 7.3. I know there is a user mysql already set up but I don't knwo the password.
You could try stopping MySQL (rcmysql stop), and then restarting it without the grant tables: safe_mysqld --skip-grant-tables This should allow open access. Login to the mysql table (mysql -u root mysql), and reset the passwords, eg: update user set password=password("newpass") where user="root"; Logout, and then reload MySQL with the proper grant tables (mysqladmin -u root reload), and then log in again (mysql -uroot -p) and give the new password. This time, write it down somewhere! The above should work - let me know how you get on. Kevin Donnelly