I keep getting MySQL authentication errors on the server perl scripts, whats wrong?
This error mostly shows up when you are using MySQL server version 4.1.12 or higher because MySQL changed their default authentication method. The error is usually displayed as: “Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server consider upgrading MySQL” There are two ways to fix this. First you could simply start your mysqld server with the “-old-passwords” option, or you can reset the passwords for each login to old state through the mysql client prompt like this: “UPDATE mysql.
