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php 5.4 and 'passwords' for MySQL 5.xx DB
Posted by: Evan Cooch
Date: March 27, 2012 12:07PM

I'm running MySQL 5.0.9 on a basic LAMP server. Main use is to support a php-based BB forum. Thought I'd test out php 5.4.0. php 5.3.10 is currently working fine, but there are some performance enhancements with php 5.4.0 that I thought I'd try out.

Did the 5.4.0 compile, installed, no muss no fuss, but when tried to access the DB using the board, got the following MySQL error:

SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using the old insecure authentication. Please use an administration tool to reset your password with the command SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('your_existing_password'). This will store a new, and more secure, hash value in mysql.user. If this user is used in other scripts executed by PHP 5.2 or earlier you might need to remove the old-passwords flag from your my.cnf file [2000]


I'm a complete mySQL newbie (in the sense that I don't use it for anything other than supporting the BB system). In reading the 'error instructions' (above), am I correct in assuming that I should do the following?

Say my current mySQL password is 'abcd1234', with a dbname of 'test-forum'

Presumably, then, it's a simple sequence of

step 1\ mysql --user=root --password=abcd1234 test-forum

step 2\ > SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('abcd1234')

step 3\ Then, presumably, I go into my.cnf, and comment out the old_passwords=1 line

Correct?

Thanks! I can count on 1-2 fingers how many times I've actually had to 'pass commands' to MySQL. I'd rather not do something completely silly, and render the DB completely inaccessible (or unrecoverable).

Thanks in advance...

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