If you get the following error, it means that when
          mysqld was started or when it reloaded the
          grant tables, it found an account in the
          user table that had an invalid password.
        
          Found wrong password for user
          '
        some_user'@'some_host';
          ignoring user
As a result, the account is simply ignored by the permission system.
The following list indicates possible causes of and fixes for this problem:
              You may be running a new version of
              mysqld with an old
              user table. You can check this by
              executing mysqlshow mysql user to see
              whether the Password column is shorter
              than 16 characters. If so, you can correct this condition
              by running the
              scripts/add_long_password script.
            
              The account has an old password (eight characters long)
              and you didn't start mysqld with the
              --old-protocol option.
              Update the account in the user table to
              have a new password or restart mysqld
              with the --old-protocol
              option.
            
              
              You have specified a password in the
              user table without using the
              PASSWORD() function. Use
              mysql to update the account in the
              user table with a new password, making
              sure to use the PASSWORD()
              function:
            
mysql>UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('->newpwd')WHERE User='some_user' AND Host='some_host';


User Comments
The option is actually --old-passwords
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