Installing and using MySQL in fedora

$ su
password: [ENTER YOUR PASSWORD]
# yum -y install mysql mysql-server

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start 

# chkconfig mysqld on 

[root@www ~]#

mysql -u root

# connect to MySQL

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2
Server version: 5.5.12 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

# show user info

mysql> select user,host,password from mysql.user;

# set root password

mysql> set password for root@localhost=password('password');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

# set root password

mysql> set password for root@'127.0.0.1'=password('password');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

# set root password

mysql> set password for root@'www.server.world'=password('password');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select user,host,password from mysql.user;

# delete IPV6 user

mysql> delete from mysql.user where user='root' and host='::1';
Query OK, 1 rows affected (0.00 sec)

# delete anonymous user

mysql> delete from mysql.user where user='';
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select user,host,password from mysql.user;

mysql> exit                                                             # quit
Bye
[root@www ~]# mysql -u root -p                          # connect with root
Enter password:                                                     # MySQL root password

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2
Server version: 5.5.12 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> exit
Bye