I'm using server version 4.1.10 on Windows Server 2003, which was started with --old-password (to ensure back compatibility with legacy PHP 4 applications). As a result my mysql server uses the older style, 16-bit password hashing.
I'm using mysql_real_connect, and linking with the libmysql.lib that ships with ver 4.1.10.
When I connect using mysql_real_connect() to a database with a password, it fails, and returns a "bad handshake" error.
However, when I connect using mysql_real_connect() to a database with no password, it connects without a problem.
This makes me suspect that the client is incorrectly trying to hash with the newer style 41-bit hashing, against a server using the 16-bit hashing. Is there any way to tell the client to use older-style hashing? One of the client flags seems to relate to this,
ie:
#define CLIENT_LONG_PASSWORD 1 /* New more secure passwords */ (mysql_com.h, line 107)
but this should mean that a value of 0 uses short passwords, and I'm calling mysql_real_connect with a value of 0 for the client flag argument (though I've also tried with 1 to see if that works).
I have no trouble connecting to the database using the same connection parameters using the command line mysql.exe.
Do anyone have any idea what I should do?
*** code extract ***
MYSQL my;
mysql_init(&my);
if (!mysql_real_connect(&my, host, user, password, db, port, NULL, 0))
{
cerr << ...
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
else
{
cerr << ...
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
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