OLD_PASSWORD(str)
OLD_PASSWORD()
was added to MySQL when the implementation of PASSWORD() was changed to improve security. OLD_PASSWORD()
returns the value of the old (pre-MySQL 4.1) implementation of PASSWORD() as a string, and is intended to permit you to reset passwords for any pre-4.1 clients that need to connect to a more recent MySQL server version, or any version of MariaDB, without locking them out.
As of MariaDB 5.5, the return value is a nonbinary string in the connection character set and collation, determined by the values of the character_set_connection and collation_connection system variables. Before 5.5, the return value was a binary string.
The return value is 16 bytes in length, or NULL if the argument was NULL.
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