Usually when you get password:no You have a password for root at localhost and you called mysql withouth the -p option.... Another way to look at it is: You tried to access such and such database when you are root at localhost but you didn't specify me to prompt you for a password Try mysqladmin -p Enter your password and viola On Sunday 21 October 2001 00:10, you wrote: > I have installed a new version of mysql, and the perl DBI mod, but I am > getting errors when trying to work with mysqladmin, and when trying to > install DBD perl mod. I get "access denied for user root at localhost. (using > password:NO). I have tried to set the password in the past, but I am either > misunderstanding something, or have inadvertently changed it to something > that I didn't mean to. > > Thanks for your help in advance > > Raymond ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------- |\/|ike at GetBent.net