I have set up two systems with mysql to support Snort with no problem , and in setting up a third I keep getting the "ERROR 1372 (HY000): Password hash should be a 41-digit hexadecimal number" response when I try setting the password for root in the format of:
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost='PASSWORD' (password omitted)
I see references to this on the web but nothing really explaining what this is. Any ideas greatly appreciated, I need to get this set to do some reporting with BASE. BTW, the installed packages using yum are
mysql
mysql-server
mysql-devel
mysql is at version level 5.0.84
Thanks in advance!
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Just to clarify what was actually wrong:
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost='PASSWORD' (password omitted)
where you have 'PASSWORD'(password omitted)
it should be PASSWORD('yourpassword')
PASSWORD in this case is actually a built in function that change your supplied plain text password into the expected encrypted password.
The first answer would have fixed it, I just felt like adding this to help understand what was wrong :)
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by: oklitPosted on 2009-09-02 at 13:29:25ID: 25245323
update mysql.user set password=password('your_pa
or
set password for root@localhost=password('y
And, after all:
flush privileges;