Authentication with old password no longer supported, use 4.1 style passwords

Question

I have my website with hostgator and I want to access mysql database with C# windows application but when I tried to connect got this message:

\"Auth

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In my case just ran the command below connected on my database by the Workbench:

SET SESSION old_passwords=0;
SET PASSWORD FOR my_user=PASSWORD('my_password');

After that I could connnect using MySql Connector 6.6.5 in the c# code with the common mysql connection string:

"server=my_server_ip;user=my_user;database=my_db;port=3306;password=my_password;"