The command Eric asked you to execute has nothing to do with MySQL, it’s a call to “rpm”, the CentOS package manager. It should not ask you for a password, and you should not need the MySQL root password there!
The command Eric asked you to execute has nothing to do with MySQL, it’s a call to “rpm”, the CentOS package manager. It should not ask you for a password, and you should not need the MySQL root password there!