[Cialug] jessie mysql root user password

[Dan Hockey]

For some reason I have not been able to figure out why during setup it will
not except the password I enter nor will it except not having a password.
I've tried this on three different jessie based computers all with the same
result.

Is this a bug? Is there a way around this?
This all started when all I wanted was to share a drive for a temporary
network storage.
Everything I try seems to require some sort of db.