Ola One wrote:
> Thanks, but what is the new password lenght?
Ola,
It's not a field length as such, it's just a change in the way that
MySQL calculates passwords. I think the real problem is actually
that the standard PHP distributions don't support the new method.
ie, I load phpMyAdmin, try to log in with my password, but when PHP
sends the encrypted password to the MySQL server, the server hashes
it differently, so the password I enter, even though it's correct,
doesn't match with the one in the database.
I understand all the standard PHP distributions have old versions of
the MySQL interface DLL - the only way to fix (without reverting
to the old password format) is to recompile PHP yourself with the
new SQL DLLs.
This change will have no effect on how long your password can be,
or anything like that.
Peter.
