<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>You could do the grep --recursive plugin /etc/mysql and see if a plugin_dir<br>
exists. Then look under there for a component_validate_password file. Or<br>
<br>
  sudo locate component_validate </blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">to see if it shows up. It doesn't on my host, which makes sense since<br>
I don't have the failure or the settings.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"> yep - there it is:</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div># sudo locate component_validate<br>/usr/lib/mysql/plugin/component_validate_password.so</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
This is a possible reason: <a href="https://graspingtech.com/install-mysql-ubuntu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://graspingtech.com/install-mysql-ubuntu/</a><br>
Look for VALIDATE PASSWORD about midway down the page and see if it rings any<br>
bells with you.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep - I completely forgot that I did this a while ago in an attempt to improve security</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
There may be other things that cause the password to fail, try: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'validate_pass%';<br>
Details here: <a href="https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/validate-password-options-variables.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/validate-password-options-variables.html</a><br>
"mythtv" is shorter than 8 in the example etc.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I managed to set global "validate_password.length" to 6 and I think it resolved my issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill - as always, thank you very much for the help!!! </div></div></div>