Re: Communication failure during handshake. Is there a server running on localhost:3306?

[Brian Mitchell]

Thanks, Alois! It solved my problem.

To clarify the procedure for other newbies out there, type the following statement at your mysql command line client, *exactly* as is, except substitute user for the username in question, host for the servername (for me it was localhost), and current_password for the password you use to login to the database. You should leave all the single quotes in the statement.

SET PASSWORD FOR 'user'@'host' = OLD_PASSWORD('current_password');