Problem creating root password MySQL in FC6

[Chris Mohler]

On 7/28/07, Barry Yu <barryyu-cts at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> As I said, this is the first time I started MySQL and never had any
> password under any user name, I was trying to create a password for user
> root after initial installation of MySQL as the book said, unless this
> is out of date and no required any more? Or I have to do something in
> addition (That book didn't mentioned it)
> Barry

As Patrick pointed out, you need the '-p' option before the password:
mysqladmin -u USER -p PASSWORD

Webmin is very handy for configuring MySQL - that's generally what I
use to set things up.

Chris