mysql 4.0.12

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Need help setting new password for MySql 4.0.12 version
I installed php, mysql, apache, all three are working so far. My next challege is to set a new password for mysql.

I'm reading Kevin Yank Book but I'm a little confused about the instructions. any advice would be great! Thank you.

[samsm]

I have not used MySQL 4 yet so perhaps things have changed. If so, hopefully I will get a little lesson as well. :-)

This is the article that I peek at when I want a summary of permissions for MySQL users and soforth:
Dev Shed: Access Granted

Here's a key quote:

The first example sets up a user "tom", password "tommygun", who has permission to access the "recipes" database only from "localhost"


mysql> INSERT INTO user (Host, User, Password)
VALUES('localhost','tom',PASSWORD('tommygun'));
mysql> INSERT INTO db (Host, Db, User, Select_priv, Insert_priv,
Update_priv, Delete_priv, Create_priv, Drop_priv) VALUES
('localhost','recipes','tom','Y','Y','Y','Y','N','N');


The equivalent GRANT command is:


mysql> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ON recipes.* TO tom@localhost
IDENTIFIED BY 'tommygun';