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 just solved my problem just like this:

1) Connect to the db with mysql workbench (select the "use old auth" and "send pass in cleartext"

2) Using the workbench, I ran the following several times (because it kept saying '0 rows affected'): (also change userID and password to your proper stuff)

SET SESSION old_passwords=0; 
SET PASSWORD FOR userID=PASSWORD('password');

SET SESSION old_passwords=false; 
SET PASSWORD FOR userID=PASSWORD('password');

3) Now go back to your app and it should run...

That is how I did it at least. I am using IX mysql and they do use old auth on their server so you must do something on your end...