mysqlPP.pm and Timeout of authentication error

[Paul Appleby]

I know that Bill Karwin has written in this forum that the pure Perl module DBD::mysqlPP doesn't work on MySQL v 4.1 and above. But it does work on my Debian using MySQL v 5.0.32. My customer's Debian also uses MySQL v 5.0.32, but the same script using DBD::mysqlPP returns this error:

Database connection not made: Timeout of authentication at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/DBD/mysqlPP.pm line 109

I suspect the problem may be in their MySQL configuration.

Any help in resolving the above error would be appreciated.

Thanks.