Re: Warning: mysql_connect(): Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

[Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>]

On 2005-03-09 Justin Pryzby wrote:
> You need to set the password using the mysql OLD_PASSWORD() function.
> Googling for this has lots of results (even though it took me quite
> some time to do it myself:(

The default /etc/mysql/my.cnf from mysql-server-4.1 has "old_passwords=1" set
for exactly this reason...

bye,

-christian-