#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server

Have installed MAMPStack on OSX 10.6. I get the error ‘#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server’
when trying to login from phpMyAdmin using the username ‘administrator’ and the password I gave during installation.

I’ve reinstalled with a different password but same result.

Running this script gives the error ‘Access denied’
/Applications/mampstack-5.3.6-0/mysql/bin/mysqlshow -p

Strangely however the following script does seem to work.

/Applications/mampstack-5.3.6-0/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -p version

Any clues?

Hi,

The login is “root” and the password is the same that you set during the installation. You can find more info at http://wiki.bitnami.com/Components/phpMyAdmin_a…

You should also specify the root user in the mysqlshow command: $ mysqlshow -u root -p

I hope it helps.

Hi, actually that helps quite a lot! I used ‘root’ and everything is OK. It seems I was misled by the info provided on the phpAdminMySQL login page, which tells you to use ‘administrator’. Also the ‘mysqlshow’ command I used was copied directly from the Quick Start Guide, so perhaps this needs revision.

Thanks again :-)

Thanks, we are working to improve it.