MySQL Default Password

Hello!

First, BitNami is awesome for making this application so easy to deploy.

I’m running the Tracks (1.7-1) native installer on a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installation. Everything is running great, so now it’s time to get backups working.

However, I can’t access Tracks instance of MySQL. According to the Virtual Machine faq, the default root password is ‘bitnami’, but I can’t log in with it. Of course, I have installed the native installer and not the VM, but I don’t see any information on the MySQL default root password for the native installer.

I also tried:

1. sudo /opt/bitnami/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password

But no luck. It seems there is a password and I just don’t know what it is.

Any help?

Update: Resolved?

I think I resolved this. I realized that I can check Tracks’ mysql user name and password in the database.yml file for Tracks.* Using those, I got access to mysql so I can run mysqldump for backups. This seems like it’ll work, although I still haven’t been able to access with ‘root.’ Still, it seems I can use this process to recover the mysql root password if necessary:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/recover-mysql-roo…

Other thoughts are welcome.

• User = ‘bitnami’; password = random alphanumeric string

Hi,

the MySQL root password is the same as the one set during installation for Tracks admin user.

Cheers,
Danoo

@Max. Look at the file database.yml in the /opt/tracks-1.7-1/apps/tracks/config directory. The password for bitnami is there.

I use this so that I can backup the MySql database using the bitnami account. I have no idea what the password is for the root account.