While installing Xebian and MythTV on my xbox, I had problem connecting to my MythTV backend. That box is running the latest bleeding edge software like mysql. I had to dig around to find someone that answered this particular problem and I found it here.
ERROR 1251: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Fix: mysql CONN Problem With xbmcmythtv
April 8, 2006 – 9:05 am