mysqladmin issues in squeeze based appliance template

[apmuthu]

Sometimes the console command for a squeeze based appliance works for:

mysqladmin password admin

and other times it errors out with:

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'

and can be corrected only with:

# mysqladmin -p password newadmin
Enter password:[I]admin[/I]

 

[apmuthu]

It finally worked with file-rc installed.