Dear Monks

I would like to have some advice on the following issue:
I have this server running MySQL 4.0.X. This mysql server is only used locally for our CMS (php stuff). However my perl-scripts connect to a remote MySQL server (4.1.X). This is what I get when I try to connect: 
~/tmp $ ./mtest.pl
DBI connect('database=my_db:host=sname.domain.com:port=3306','my_usr',
+...)
failed: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by
server; consider upgrading MySQL client at ./mtest.pl line 5
Can't call method "disconnect" on an undefined value at ./mtest.pl lin
+e 7.

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I upgraded DBI and DBD::mysql but that didn't change anything.
Should I install a more recent MySQL client ? (Note this is a production envirnoment and I don't wanna break the CMS)

Any suggestions ?

Thnx a lot
LuCa

In reply to Connection problem with MySQL( Client does not support auth...) by jeanluca

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