Hi all,
I came across something strange today on my dev machine and thought I'd
see if anyone here has run into a similar problem. To begin, my dev
machine is Win7 Ultimate 64-bit, running MySQL 5.5.11 (also 64-bit).
Today when I tried to log into the server using the old MySQL GUI tools
as root, I got an error number 1045 Access denied for user
'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES). This is odd because I've not
changed the root password on my dev machine in years. When I tried to
goto a site on this same machine, Apache throws the following message:
mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using the old insecure
authentication. Please use an administration tool to reset your
password with the command SET PASSWORD =
PASSWORD('your_existing_password'). This will store a new, and more
secure, hash value in mysql.user. If this user is used in other scripts
executed by PHP 5.2 or earlier you might need to remove the
old-passwords flag from your my.cnf file
This is the first time I've seen such a message, or had MySQL randomly
stop accepting my root password. I'll likely be doing a complete
uninstall and reinstall in a few hours on this machine, but thought I'd
ask here to see if anyone had any thoughts as to why this happened, and
how I might correct it? If at all possible, I'd prefer to not have to
do an uninstall/reinstall as I wisely hadn't backed up a few tables I
was working on over the last couple days.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
-Tim
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