Thread:Project:Support desk/MediaWiki Building failure——Mysql connection issue/reply (4)

Hi!

First make sure, that MySQL is started without the setting "old-passwords". This setting must be removed from your my.cnf file. Then restart MySQL and it should be able to save new/changed passwords in a secure format.

After that run this SET PASSWORD = ... command, which MySQL told you to run:

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. Passwords are saved in the database "mysql", see the "user" there. Passwords saved in old format are 16 bytes long. Passwords saved in new format are more than 40 bytes long and start with a star ("*") sign. Make sure that your password is stored in that way!