Package: mysql-common-4.1 Version: 4.1.11a-4 Hello,
although Debian Sarge includes mysql 4.1 as an alternative package to 4.0, the client applications of Debian are linked to the old library. However, mysql 4.1 uses a new auth protocol and a different style of storing passwords. Old mysql user entries will still work, but when creating a new mysql user entry with 4.1, old clients will fail to connect with the error message that the "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client". http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/old-client.html As an example, this happens when using Sarge's php4-mysql with Sarge's mysql 4.1. Please advise all client application package managers on Debian to link to the 4.1 compatible libraries instead to 4.0. This should include libapache-mod-auth-mysql, libdbd-mysql-perl, php4-mysql and others. Otherwise, users will be bitten by this behavious whenever they create a new user. Thanks, Hanno P.S.: Btw., a quickfix to this issue is to use old_password() instead of password() when creating a new mysql user in 4.1 if older clients want to connect to the server. That's what I do at the moment. -- Hanno Müller, Dipl.-Inform. epublica GmbH http://www.epublica.de Tel. +49 (0)40/4109879-4 Open Business Club - Mitglied werden: http://www.openbc.com/go/invanon/2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
