Hi!
I was scanning old mails to check if we have any unsolved problems and
come across the belove mail message.
The problem is that MySQL uses the getpass() function on SunOS to get
the password and this cuts down the password to 8 characters.
In MySQL 3.22.29 and 3.23.8 I have fixed so that we don't anymore use
the getpass() function on SunOS or Solaris 2.5.1 to avoid this problem.
Regards,
Monty
>>>>> "Suraj" == Suraj Bhide <sbhide@stripped> writes:
Suraj> At 03:50 PM 11/15/1999 +0200, sinisa@stripped wrote:
>> sbhide@stripped writes:
>> > >Description:
>> > I had set an account and its password. the password incidentally was 9
> chars.
>> > I faced this problem. if i try to connect to MySQL via
>> > "mysql -utms_admin -ttms_admin TMS_TEST" it would work allright.
>> > however when i try it as
>> > "mysql -utms_admin -p TMS_TEST"
>> > it would prompt for a password and if i enter "tms_admin" (correct
> one)
>> > then it would still fail. finally i figured out that the password
>> > takes only 8 characters when prompted.
>> >
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> mysql -utms_admin -pTMS_TEST
>>
>> No spaces between -p and password !
>>
>> Sinisa
Suraj> oops sorry.. my mistake in typing the problem report.
Suraj> actually the first command given is here again:
Suraj> 1. mysql -utms_admin -ptms_admin TMS_TEST
Suraj> here the TMS_TEST is the database name and not the password and the tms_admin is
> both the user name
Suraj> and password. Note this command works fine.
Suraj> however when i try:
Suraj> 2. mysql -utms_admin -p TMS_TEST (here i don't give the password on command line
> but mysql will prompt for one and i enter it then), it does prompt for password where in i
> enter 'tms_admin' and it says access denied for this user.
Suraj> however, when i change the password from tms_admin (9 chars) to tmsadmin (8
> chars) both the commands work fine (of course, the password being changed to tmsadmin
> rather than tms_admin in both 1. and 2. above)
Suraj> - suraj
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