@rogue-spirit said in Zero to Mux (with wiki):
Okay, I get to the SSH step using both kiTTY or puTTY and I can't get passed that. As it was a suggested step I tried to skip it and just log in(on the droplet console) with root and the password given in my email and it keeps telling me the password is wrong. Given... I can't even see myself typing the password in so I'm not certain I'm even typing.
If your password is incorrect then your hosting company's admins should definitely change that for you, since without it you can't do much else.
But even if you could log on through a console I very strongly recommend figuring out what you need to do to log on using a proper SSH client, since otherwise you'll run into display issues, pasting might be problematic, back scrolling could be difficult, etc. The console is there to recover from situations that otherwise lock you out your server (say, if your ssh daemon is unresponsive, you block its port by mistake, the machine won't boot up fully, etc).
Update: I had droplet send me a new password and I was able to create a new password with that. Now I'm trying to do the mysql_secure_installation to run and I'm not sure I'm doing that right. You enter this at the root@play:~# or what do I do there? Because I enter it in and then type my password and I get "Error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) This occurs even when I use the password mysql as suggested by @skew.
Try to log on mysql with
mysql -u root -p
then hit <enter>. If your password is blank (as it should be) then you should be logged on mysql, and you can do
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('NewPassHere') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
at which point you should be set. If not we can go into password recovery which shouldn't be too hard since you've got system root access now.