Keith Ivey said: > William R. Mussatto wrote: > >>I've been googling for 1/2 hr w/o any answers. sorry if I've missed >> the obvious. >>Problem. Fresh install of mysql 4.7.1, AS perl 5.8 >>DBI and DBD-Mysql via ppm. >>Client does not support authnticaiton protocol >> > > What version of MySQL were you using previously? If it was 4.1.0 or > earlier, then this > might be useful reading: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Password_hashing.html > > -- > Keith Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Washington, DC Thanks, I'll check it out. I did the development under linux using 3.23.xx and perl 5.6 Basically debian stable.
>From the article it looks like I'll have to fall back to a 4.0 version. I was hoping, but using a clean install on the windows box to avoid these issues. I'll try SET PASSWORD FOR 'some_user'@'some_host' = OLD_PASSWORD('mypass'); Thanks that worked, now to see what happends when I try w/connector/J -- William R. Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer Ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27 FAX. 909-608-7061 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]