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:

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Answer 1

Just wanted to add to @diangelisj answer and say the root of the problem is the version of PhpMyAdmin installed on your server. In order to use the latest MySQL Data Connector class, you have to have the latest PhpMyAdmin (or issues arise). In my case, I have PhpMyAdmin 4.0.10.7 and tried using MySQL Data Connector 6.7.9, which gave the error.

What I did:

1. Download version 5.2.7 from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.9.html

2. Add .dll as reference to application

3. Presto!