Local Wordpress on Fedora 14

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On 05/17/2011 07:32 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I want to experiment with Wordpress, so it seemed a good idea to set up a
> local copy.  Or maybe not.  :-)  I started following the guide http://www.if-
> not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-wordpress-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/
> - until I got to step 3 - connect to mysql as root.  How do you do that when
> you haven't set up passwords?  I must be missing something really obvious, but
> I'm absolutely stuck.  Can someone kick me in the right direction please?
>

By default MySQL root password is empty;

You can change it by running:

mysqladmin -u root password $MY_NEW_PASSWORD

or

mysql_secure_installation

PS.
This is Fedora/KDE specific list, for general question you should use 
users list instead:

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Athmane Madjoudj
RHCE