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 met this problem today, but I'v fixed it as below:

SET old_passwords=FALSE;
SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('new pwd here');

Well, maybe the server's connection version is lower than the client, so you have to run this:"SET old_passwords=FALSE;" Good Luck!