id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc 136 PHP 5.3 mysqlnd requires new-style passwords geofft "The sql.mit.edu servers currently have `old_passwords=1` set in the mysqld configuration for compatibility with MySQL 3.x and 4.x clients. The [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php-mysqlnd/ MySQL native driver in PHP 5.3] only knows how to deal with [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/password-hashing.html new-style passwords]; this will probably bite us hard when we move to PHP 5.3 as part of upgrading to Fedora 13. We'll need to either figure out if we can do the backward-compatible but insecure hack of making PHP clients able to use old-style passwords (disable the native driver? patch it?), or if we can drop support for MySQL clients that don't support new-style passwords, i.e., 4.0.x and below. " defect closed blocker Fedora 20 sql fixed