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 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [wordpress and mysql 4.1.x](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-mysql-41x/)
 *  [dramatools](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dramatools/)
 * (@dramatools)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-mysql-41x/#post-88618)
 * If you have control of the MySQL server (you’re the system administrator or have
   your own instance of MySQL), you can force it to use the old-style password hashes
   by adding `old-passwords` to my.cnf/my.ini or using the `--old-passwords` command
   line option when starting the server. This allows WordPress to run unmodified,
   but you’ll lose the security benefit of the new password hashes.
    From reviewing
   the password changes in MySQL 4.1.1 and later, another workaround may be to create
   the database user with a MySQL 4.0 client, which will use the old hash for the
   password. If that password gets changed by a 4.1.x client later, the password
   is hashed the new way and will cause WordPress to break. The new MySQL calls 
   in PHP 5 support new-style passwords, but WP’s support for PHP 5 is a work in
   progress– Try a nightly build if you’re feeling adventurous.

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