I received a suggestion that the problem might be in the privilege tables. Note that this server has never been at a level less than 4.1. The password field in user is 45 char long, and passwords already begin with a "*".
The suggestion was a good one based on the symptom, but it doesn't apply here. On Monday 19 January 2004 07:25, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I'm running the SuSE 8.2 distro with MySQL 4.1.0-0 and > python-mysql-0.9.1-430. > > On Saturday, I had to do a reinstall of everything (long story). The > software listed above is the same as it was before the reinstall. The only > difference is that this time I installed 4.1 directly, before I had done an > upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1. > > I try to connect to MySQL as follows: > > import MySQLdb > db = MySQLdb.connect(user="michael", passwd="*****", db="backups") > > When I do this, I get the following exception: > > _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1249, 'Client does not support > authentication protocol requested by server. Consider upgrading MySQL > client') > > Tables are INNODB, but we're not to that point yet. The MySQL client is the > one with the 4.1 beta release - and worked before the reinstall. > > Can anyone offer me any help?? > > tia > ---Michael -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
