Re: What ver of MySql and PHP in FC3 ?

Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

In case you want Mysql 4, here's something that joe orton posted on fedora devel that may interest you:

"As some noticed, MySQL 4.1.7 is now in Raw Hide.  The FLOSS exception is
as yet not acceptable to our legal folks (that work is ongoing) so the
LGPL-licensed 3.x client libraries and headers are still being included
and any applications under GPL-incompatible licenses are being adjusted
to use them.

There is a known issue where 3.x clients can't connect to the 4.1.7
server unless --old-passwords is specified in my.cnf which I don't think
is resolved in the 4.1.7 packages yet.

thanks fort the info :-))

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html

     A.2.3 |Client does not support authentication protocol|

MySQL 4.1 and up uses an authentication protocol based on a password hashing algorithm that is incompatible with that used by older clients. If you upgrade the server to 4.1, attempts to connect to it with an older client may fail with the following message:

shell> mysql
Client does not support authentication protocol requested
by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

To solve this problem, you should use one of the following approaches:

   * Upgrade all client programs to use a 4.1.1 or newer client library.
   * When connecting to the server with a pre-4.1 client program, use
     an account that still has a pre-4.1-style password.
   * Reset the password to pre-4.1 style for each user that needs to
     use a pre-4.1 client program. This can be done using the |SET
     PASSWORD| statement and the |OLD_PASSWORD()| function:

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR
-> 'some_user'@'some_host' = OLD_PASSWORD('newpwd');

     Alternatively, use |UPDATE| and |FLUSH PRIVILEGES|:

mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = OLD_PASSWORD('newpwd')
-> WHERE Host = 'some_host' AND User = 'some_user';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

     Substitute the password you want to use for ``newpwd'' in the
     preceding examples. MySQL cannot tell you what the original
     password was, so you'll need to pick a new one.
   * Tell the server to use the older password hashing algorithm:
        1. Start |mysqld| with the |--old-passwords| option.
        2. Assign an old-format password to each account that has had
           its password updated to the longer 4.1 format. You can
           identify these accounts with the following query:

mysql> SELECT Host, User, Password FROM mysql.user
-> WHERE LENGTH(Password) > 16;

           For each account record displayed by the query, use the
           |Host| and |User| values and assign a password using the
           |OLD_PASSWORD()| function and either |SET PASSWORD| or
           |UPDATE|, as described earlier.

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shrek-m