[joeb12]

Okay, first of all you are passing a password to the MySQL client program. Either you have something like an .ini file (like .mysql.cnf in your $HOME) or you're passing a password through an environment variable.

If I where you I'd restart MySQL with the --skip-grant-tables so you can login and then change the password using the MySQL client. For details see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/...sions.html

Regards