PHP 5.3.6 and MySQL

["Eric H.M.M. Condic" <condic@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have just upgraded to PHP 5.3.6 and everything is working except the link to a remote MySQL database.  When we run a test script, we get the following error message, see below.  MySQL is version 5.1.52:

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Could not connect: mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using the old insecure authentication. Please use an administration tool to reset your password with the command SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('your_existing_password'). This will store a new, and more secure, hash value in mysql.user. If this user is used in other scripts executed by PHP 5.2 or earlier you might need to remove the old-passwords flag from your my.cnf file

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Eric Condic
Oakland University