La solution consiste à mettre à jour le mot de passe de l'utilisateur de la base de données à l'aide de la fonction OLD_PASSWORD de MySQL. Par exemple :
[[email protected] ~]$ mysql -u root -p mysql
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
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Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 267
Server version: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.1 (Ubuntu)
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mysql> use mysql;
Database changed
mysql> update user set Password=OLD_PASSWORD('password') WHERE User='username';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
Rows matched: 0 Changed: 0 Warnings: 0
mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql>