Re: ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for user

[James Preston]

Continuing the saga. Found there was a server side issue which was causing the 'unknown' message in wireshark. Although I had turned on SSLm I failed to notice that error log contained error messages for SSL and continued starting without SSL support. Fixed these errors and now SSL is running on server side and 'unknown' response in wirshark now gone only to be replaced with a new responses:
Protocol Info
MYSQL Auth Switch Request
MYSQL Auth Switch Response
MYSQL Response Error 1045

Then mysql client reports Error 1045 Access Denied using password: YES

Will continue to research and see if I can find out what the Auth Switch messages mean and if I can resolve those.