mysql-direct authentication lossage

"Carl Shapiro" <[email protected]> Wed, 11 May 2005 03:23:03 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.allegro
Organization SRI International
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Has anybody else had problems connecting to MySQL lately?  I am getting the
following error with ACL 6.2 and MySQL 4.1.11 on FreeBSD.

mysql error 1251:
Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server;
consider upgrading MySQL client
   [Condition of type DBI.MYSQL:MYSQL-ERROR]