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Id: 14304
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: DBI

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Requestors: siwinski [...] cisco.com
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Subject: MySQL 4.1+ Password Incompatibility
DBI->connect fails with standard MySQL 4.1+ passwords. MySQL's OLD_PASSWORD must be used to set user passwords through MySQL for DBI to connect. This means less secure passwords for MySQL -- 41 byte hashes instead of 45 byte hashes. Please see the following MySQL manual sections for more information: "5.6.9 Password Hashing in MySQL 4.1" http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/password-hashing.html. "5.6.9.1 Implications of Password Hashing Changes for Application Programs" http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/application-password-use.html "5.6.9.2 Password Hashing in MySQL 4.1.0" http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/password-hashing-4-1-0.html
Not a DBI bug. Not even a DBD::mysql bug. Send email to dbi-users@perl.org
From: siwinski [...] cisco.com
Sorry. Thanks for the reply.