[Cialug] jessie mysql root user password

[matt at itwannabe.com]

Is this on an Arm computer/dev board of some sort?  Sometimes when you use an image for an Arm board you end up with a bunch of stuff pre-installed with users and passwords already set.

Have you tried to start mysql with the "--skip-grant-tables" option so that you can set a new password for the root user?

If that doesn't work then I'm not sure what you could do.  You would need root or sudo access to the system to stop mysql and start it with that option.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:49
Subject: Re: [Cialug] jessie mysql root user password

That IS odd.  Neither NFS nor Samba should require any sort of DB.  Makes
me wonder if maybe apt is unhappy.  Can you get a clean apt-get update &&
apt-get upgrade   ?



On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Dan Hockey <icepuck2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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