[TriLUG] installing MySQL on SUSE 8.0

[William Schulz]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:26:33AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Just guessing here (since I'm a postgresql guy), but isn't the second
> one just an example of setting the root password from another host.  In
> otherwords the first example is how to do it when you are on the local
> server and the second is how to do it if you are on a workstation
> accessing the server remotely.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:59, Mike Kelley wrote:
> > I'm trying to install MySQL 3.23.55 on SUSE 8.0
> > I installed the RPMs with no problem however when I run the mysql_install_db it reminds me to set the password for root as:
> > 
> > mysqladmin -u root password 'newpassword'
> > mysqladmin -u root -h Linux1 password 'newpassword'


Exactly, this is an either/or option.  In your case, the first is correct.  Should you wish to change the password from another machine, you would use the second option.