On 22/01/17 20:03, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/password-hashing.html
>
> As part of routine maintenance I upgraded MySQL to a more recent version on
> the LUV server. Unfortunately I didn't test the system properly and didn't
> notice that Drupal was down. The problem was that the Drupal database was so
> old that it had a less secure method of storing the password that is rejected
> by newer versions of MySQL.
Yikes! That is ancient. Glad you upgraded!
> The solution was to just set the password again
> to the same value (I don't think that the localhost connections used for
> MySQL
> access were at risk of leaking the password - and if they were we have bigger
> problems than Drupal data).
>
> Things should be fine now and the above URL is for anyone who is curious
> about
> the details or who is about to upgrade an old MySQL server.
Excellent, thanks for that.
Cheers,
Andrew
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