Bug 540735

Summary:	Does old_passwords=1 still need to be set?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alex Lancaster <alex>
Component:	mysql	Assignee:	Tom Lane <tgl>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	hhorak, tgl
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-01-15 22:14:19 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Alex Lancaster 2009-11-24 00:47:57 UTC

Are there still apps using mysql 3.x on F-12 and newer?  If not, could we possibly change the old_passwords options in /etc/my.cnf to be set to:

old_passwords=0

This causes problems for newer apps such as MythBox, see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/myconnpy/+bug/380528

Comment 1 Tom Lane 2009-11-24 02:08:47 UTC

Hm ... AFAIK there are no plans to support mysql 3.23 clients in RHEL6, and even if someone insists on that there seems no need to support it by default.  So yeah, we could take that out now.

Comment 2 Tom Lane 2010-01-15 22:14:19 UTC

Done in current builds, but I forgot to close this bug :-(

Comment 3 Alex Lancaster 2010-01-15 23:35:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Done in current builds, but I forgot to close this bug :-(    

What about F-11 and F-12?  I don't see this change there as yet, are there pending updates?  If so, you should add this bug to the bodhi update and let the update system close them.

Comment 4 Alex Lancaster 2010-01-15 23:36:57 UTC

e.g. I see:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-0130

and:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0128

Comment 5 Tom Lane 2010-01-15 23:53:40 UTC

I have no intention of trying to force such a change on existing installations.  The only thing I did was to remove the setting from the default my.cnf for future installations.  It's debatable whether there is much point in doing that in the F-11 or F-12 branches.