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Snow Leopard, PHP and MySQL

Asked by: SandmanNet

Ok, so I just installed Snow Leopard after having used Leopard. I'm using PHP to connect to a MySQL server elsewhere, which has worked fine with the built in PHP in Leopard, but in Snow Leopard I get this:

Warning: mysql_connect(): OK packet 6 bytes shorter than expected in script.php on line 3

Warning: mysql_connect(): mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication in script.php on line 3

Googling a bit, I have learned that this has something to do with old and new password in MySQL, but I don't seem to be able to find reliable information onhow to remedy it.

The Snow Leopard built in version of PHP is 5.3.0:

sandman> php -v
PHP 5.3.0 (cli) (built: Jul 19 2009 00:34:29)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies

The MySQL server I'm running is a 5.0.33 Source distribution that I've complied myself, running on OSX 10.4 Server

When connected to the MySQL server, and running this command:

> select User, Host, length(Password) from mysql.user where User='sandman';

I get this:

| User    | Host          | length(Password) |
| sandman | 1.2.3.%    |               16 |

Which apparently means that this is the old format (or it would have said 41). But how do I update it?

> set password for 'sandman'@'1.2.3.%' = password('pass');

Won't change the above information. /etc/my.cnf doesn't have a setting for using the old passwords and neither do the startup arguments.

What am I missing? How do I get Snow Leopard to use the MySQL server?

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2009-09-02 at 12:46:24ID24702581
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by: pmessanaPosted on 2009-09-02 at 13:01:37ID: 25244962

Check this out: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/password-hashing.html

Read down where it talks about the length of the password and the proper way to upgrade to avoid the issue, it sounds like you upgraded out of sync of what they suggest.  You could try changing the size of the column in the user table when in as root and then reset the password so that it is 41.  Set it to VARCHAR(41)

ALTER TABLE `users` CHANGE `password` `password` VARCHAR( 41 )

 

by: SandmanNetPosted on 2009-09-03 at 01:14:40ID: 25248679

Yes, the link you posted leads me ultimately to:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/old-client.html

Which talk about how to make the passwords "OLD" again. As it seems, my passwords *ARE* old and need to be made "new", for some reason that isn't covered by the MySQL help.

So, while your suggestion that altering the mysql.user table may work, I'm still hesitant to edit this directly since this is a production server. So, to run the test password() function on that page:

mysql> SELECT PASSWORD('mypass');
->  6f8c114b58f2ce9e


This means that my MySQL server uses the old passwords as per this page, so I'm assuming that the PHP/MySQL combination in Snow Leopard is trying the new password hash only?

But still, the error message I recieve is "packet 6 bytes shorter than expected", which isn't the difference between 16 and 41, so I don't know what to make of it.

 

by: SandmanNetPosted on 2009-09-03 at 01:29:23ID: 31624097

My apologies here. I did read more about this on the page you linked to and it seems that if the field is char(16) in the passwords table, password() returns the old passwords. I altered the table as per your suggestion and then restarted the MySQL server. I can now connect to it! Thank you!

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