Am 16.10.2006 um 14:10 schrieb Anders Karlsson:
Come to think of it, might it be that you are using an old mysql
client, possibly one that exists as part of an old installation of
MySQL or in the case of Linux, one that was installed as part of
the Linux distro installation?
Some of these older versions of MySQL Client does not support the
more secure password encryption methods used by newer MySQL
versions, and you will get just the errors that you are getting.
So if you are using Linux, do a "which mysql" and see what mysql
client you are using. Also do a "mysql --version" which will show
the command line client version. You have to watch for this if the
client has version 4.0 or earlier, and you have server with version
4.1 or higher, then this is surely the problem you are experiencing.
Read more here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/password-hashing.html
Best regards
Anders Karlsson
Thank you Anders.
A 'which mysql' in command line gives the following: /usr/local/mysql/
bin/mysql
A 'mysql --version' in command line says: mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib
4.1.21, for apple-darwin7.9.0 (powerpc) using readline 4.3
I am using the Version 4.1.21 Standard for Mac OS X (PPC)
I have already 'solved' the problem. I have reinstalled the whole
system. It takes me less than 2 hours reinstalling everything. As I
am always making backups of all my preference files, it was pretty
easy. Easier than finding out, what the hell was going wrong with my
password (at least for me). Unfortunately, right now I do not have so
much time so I was forced to do so. Thanks to all who tried to help
me with this.
For now I did not set up a password for my root account. After my bad
experience with that, I prefer to leave everything as it is.
Anyhow, if somebody has a glue of what was or could have been the
problem, I am interested to know what it was. What really annoys me,
is that I have not found what it was.
Best regards,
Cornelia
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Spanien / España / Spain
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