Title: Database connection error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Database connection error

 *  [DareDevil73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daredevil73/)
 * (@daredevil73)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-39/)
 * Today, for the first time, I get get this errors:
 * [26-giu-2015 08:35:56] ERROR: Cannot connect to MySQL database 2000: 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
 * [26-giu-2015 08:35:56] ERROR: Step aborted: too many attempts!
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-39/)
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