old-passwords in my.cnf
Then, one month ago I did some optimizations in the my.cnf file, and somehow "old-passwords" got removed from the file without me noticing. Upon restarting mysql, some tables just vanished. I put them back in from the backup and everything worked like a charm.
Now I'm about to restart the mysql-service again, and was wondering; should the "old-passwords" be put back in, or not? When I take a look at the "mysql" database "user"-table, I notice some of the passwords are only half the lenght of others, so they're of the old format, but access to the databases works like a charm.
SO; the thing everybody says about putting "old-passwords" in my.cnf when upgrading, does that only apply at the time of the upgrade, or for ever?
