xampp shell asks for a password

[kmittal]

I am using xampp 1.7.3 in vista laptop. Xampp installation and configuration was flawless, but whenever I try to access xampp shell, i get the following message:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localho st' (using password: NO

even when I run as administrator. Please help me.

[Atli]

Hey.

That is an error message MySQL gives you when you try to access the MySQL CLI without a username. The shell by itself shouldn't give you that error though.

Are you trying to access the MySQL CLI from within the shell?