Yes, that's intentional - we have changed this in 4.1, but it's not
documented in the manual yet. A quote from the developer working on that
code:
So, the PASSWORD() function is now not to be used for passwords? The
problem is that I have built at least a few applications that use
PASSWORD() as
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Description:
> with the latest 4.1 tree (from today) the PASSWORD() function returns random
>alpha-numeric text /[a-f0-9]/
> 45 characters in length (which is too long for a password string)
');
>Fix:
Not known.
>Submitter-Id:
>Originator:
>Organization:
>MySQL support: none
>Synopsis: PASSWORD() function not working
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Category: mysql
>Class: sw-bug
>Release: mysql-4.1.0-alpha (Source distri
>Description:
with the latest 4.1 tree (from today) the PASSWORD() function returns random
alpha-numeric text /[a-f0-9]/
45 characters in length (which is too long for a password string). The string
always starts with a * (asterisk).
example:*95144feaa0f433f3f62c29
