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

this solution worked: SET SESSION old_passwords = 0;

BUT: I had to drop the "old" userfrosting table afterwards and create it new - then it worked like a charm.