[Mediawiki-l] Re: "old mySQL" versions message during install

Sun Dec 25 08:13:40 UTC 2005

> From: Brion Vibber <brion.vibber at gmail.com>
>
> On 12/24/05, D B <dkbyrne at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can't seem to resolve the "You are using MySQL 4.1 server, but PHP
>> is linked to old client libraries" error message:
>
> If you are reasonably familiar with installing Unix programs from
> source and have the developer tools installed, you can recompile PHP
> from source code, passing --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql to have it use
> the libraries from the MySQL.
>
> If that sounds complicated, you should probably first try the
> configuration options mentioned in the earlier paragraphs of
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html

Put the following in /etc/my.cnf:

[mysqld]
old_passwords=1

This has been criticized as somehow being "less secure", but  
certainly no less secure than MySQL versions prior to the better  
password hashing scheme.

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