Bug 540735 - Does old_passwords=1 still need to be set?
Summary: Does old_passwords=1 still need to be set?
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mysql
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tom Lane
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-24 00:47 UTC by Alex Lancaster
Modified: 2013-07-03 03:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-01-15 22:14:19 UTC
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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.
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