PHP 5.4 PDO could not connect to MySQL 4.1+ using the old insecure authentication

Question

I know there are a tonne of similar questions, in fact I\'ve read all (9) of them.

However, none of them solve my problem.

I have a shared-hosting package (t

Answer 1

In phpMyAdmin, setting the session variable will work, but the call to the password function must occur in the same session/execution.

For example, if I execute:

SET SESSION old_passwords = 0;
SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('notagoodpassword');

It will correctly set it.