[drupal-support] Installation issues

[Paul Greene]

Torgeir Berg wrote:

> techlists at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> After downloading and untarring the Drupal software, I moved all files
>> per the Drupal install instructions into /var/www/html.
>>
>> I ran the next line in the installation instructions:
>>
>> mysqladmin -u dba_user -p create drupal
>>
>> It prompted for a password; I entered a password and got the following
>> response:
>>
>> mysqladmin: CREATE DATABASE failed; error: 'Access denied for user
>> ''@'localhost' to database 'drupal''
>
>
> The 'dba_user' is used in the example, but you'd probably want to use 
> the MySQL 'root' account when setting up the drupal database.
>
> From INSTALL.txt:
>
> "In the following examples, 'dba_user' is an example MySQL user which 
> has the CREATE and GRANT privileges. Use the appropriate user name for 
> your system."
>
>
> regards,
>
> Torgeir

How do you create a user in MySQL? (let me reiterate I'm just as new at 
MySQL as I am at Drupal).

Or does MySQL use operating system level user accounts? I've tried 
"mysql", "dba_user", and "root" and none of them have worked. MySQL only 
added the "mysql" account on its own.

Paul