On 10/06/2014 03:51 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 15:43 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>>>> failed with: >>>>>> >>>>>> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed >>>>>> error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using >> password: >>>>>> NO)' >>>>>> > Please read the above carefully: using password: NO > Specifying the password requires the -p or --password option. Just > specify -p on the command line and let mysqladmin ask for the > password... When I try 'mysqladmin -u root -p' I get the help dump. Going to try the secure install, or delete those three files I found.