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.-- shrek-m
