MySQL Bugs: #15785: Single any char password is always right!

Bug #15785	Single any char password is always right!
Submitted:	15 Dec 2005 18:30	Modified:	2 Jan 2008 9:37
Reporter:	Yuriy Pavlyutkin	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Connector / ODBC	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	5.0	OS:	Windows (Windows 2000 SP4)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Connector/ODBC Window => Password input field:

When for user, who has no password, input password, consist of any single char, connection test is successful. 

How to repeat:
Create mysql user without password.
Create new DSN using this user login.
Use as password any single char.
Press Test button.

Thank for the bug report. I was able to reproduce the bug. 
My test case is attached.

Test case

Attachment: test.c (text/plain), 3.17 KiB.

Hi,

this is fixed in our new MyODBC version 5.1.
Please try it and let us now, if you still have problems.

Thank you for trusting MySQL.

Kind Regards,

Susanne

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed in the latest released version of that product, which you can download at

  http://www.mysql.com/downloads/

Explanation: This problem is not repeatable with both 3.51 and 5.1 recent versions. Tested against 5.0.54BK on WinXP Pro SP2 localhost.