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Posted by: Iain Hunneybell
Date: January 03, 2006 07:48AM

I've been through this "mysql_connect(): Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server" problem a few times on different builds and it's always that you can remember the problem but not the details of how you fixed it last time!

mglatts' (http://forums.mysql.com/profile.php?11,219241) documentation of setting the old_password setting is excellent, but one final thing...

If, like me, you *did* define a root password during installation you're still stuck. The reason is the root password was set in the 'new' stronger password format during installation and so the old_password setting doesn't help you. It just helps you not 'un-fix' things later.

Therefore, if like me, you *did* set a root password during setup, you also need to reset the root password to the 'old encryption' basis.

How to do this is nicely documented here by flamtriplets_2000 (http://forums.mysql.com/profile.php?11,241156), but to save you looking for this post (http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,6400,15113#msg-15113) I quote from flamtriplets_2000:

After starting the MySQL Command Line Client:

set password in old format:
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD('mypass');

This now resets the password you established during installation and which was in 'new' format to be in 'old' format which should work with php/MySQLadmin. Now you should be motoring :-)

.../Iain

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