I am starting to use MySQL Workbench tool especially for data modeling. So, the first I would like to do is reverse engineering of my existing database on web server. But I
Using MAMP PRO (version 2.2) I tried pmking's suggestion and was still getting nowhere. So I edited the two files: /Applications/MAMP/bin/repairMysql.sh /Applications/MAMP/bin/upgradeMysql.sh
changing 'proot' to 'p' in each. This creates a prompt for the MySQL root password and it worked!
I hope that helps someone else.