[ProgSoc] Password in MySQL database

sanguinev at progsoc.org sanguinev at progsoc.org
Thu Mar 5 09:28:10 EST 2009


tinang at progsoc.org wrote:
> I tried to change my password using "mysqladmin -u (my user name) -p
> password (my new password)", and I got this error:
>
>
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
> Check that mysqld is running and that the socket:
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!
>
>
> I was using Putty from home. Is there something I need to do differently?
>
>   

The MySQL server is muspell.progsoc... or sql.progsoc... So connection 
to localhost won't work from niflheim...




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