Sounds like the MySQL 4.x Password hashing. Use this :
sET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = old_PASSWORD('whatafraka');\
Sheck out the 4.x doc about Pasword hashing for more
//jjs
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Garner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 5/1/2005 10:37 PM
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Re: ERROR 1251: Client does not support authentication protocol
requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client
On 2/05/2005 5:21 p.m., Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I did this below,
>
> mysql>SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('whatafraka');
>
> and then tried logging on,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bluefish-1.0]# mysql -h localhost -u root -pwhatafraka
> ERROR 1251: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by
> server; consider upgrading MySQL client
>
> What is this..? Why is it asking me to upgrade the client.? Cheers.
>
> Mark Sargent.
>
See here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/password-hashing.html
Presumably your server is running 4.1 with new passwords and your client
is an older version.
-Simon
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