Hello,

I am trying to get my MySQL server up and running but I'm having a random problem with password authentication. Ever so often MySQL will fail to authenticate a user, but as soon as you try again (or refresh the web page) it goes through fine. Now this only happens if there is a password required for the database, otherwise it works great. As soon as I add a password, it starts to randomly give an 'Access denied for user@localhost (USING PASSWORD=YES)' error.


I've been searching the net for weeks and talking to people, but nobody seems to know what to do.

I'm using MySQL 4.0.15a, but I have tried this with several verisions and the same things happens.


Thanks for any help you can provide!

You should upgrad your system 4.0.15a is an old alpha version not suitable for production.

You should use a stable version of mysql

no matter what verision I use it happens, whether it's 3 or 4