- Warning
- Deprecated. Newer servers should never send this since they don't support Old Password Authentication and they support CLIENT_PLUGIN_AUTH. Newer clients should not support it since they should not support Old Password Authentication. and they should support CLIENT_PLUGIN_AUTH.
Old Authentication Method Switch Request Packet consisting of a single 0xfe byte. It is sent by server to request client to switch to Old Password Authentication if CLIENT_PLUGIN_AUTH capability flag is not supported (by either the client or the server).
Payload
Type | Name | Description |
int<1> | 0xFE (254) | status tag |
- Returns
- Protocol::AuthSwitchResponse: with an Old Password Authentication hash or closing the connection.
- See also
- client_mpvio_read_packet()