Cacti

After some back and forth on the bug tracking list for Gentoo, I managed to determine that, at least in Gentoo, the use of the $ character is not supported for the password. Not sure if there are others, but I'm rather hoping that gets fixed as I much prefer being able to use special characters in p...

That file doesn't appear to exist. I'm using the same version as you, but it was installed from the Gentoo packages.

net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.6f-r1

I'm having exactly the same issue here. Many lines of Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: 'cactiuser@localhost' (Using password: NO) in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cacti/lib/adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 339 followed by Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'. Please ma...