Merge pzaitsev@work.mysql.com:/home/bk/mysql-4.1

into mysql.com:/home/pz/mysql/mysql-4.1-root

sql/password.c

@@ -689,12 +689,22 @@ my_bool check_scramble(const char *scrambled, const char *message,
 {
   struct rand_struct rand_st;
   ulong hash_message[2];
-  char buff[16],*to,extra;			/* Big enough for check */
+  char buff[16],*to,extra;		   /* Big enough for check */
   const char *pos;
-  char message_buffer[9];                      /* Copy of message */
-
-  memcpy(message_buffer,message,8); /* Old auth uses 8 bytes at maximum */
-  message_buffer[8]=0;
+  char message_buffer[SCRAMBLE_LENGTH+1];  /* Copy of message */
+  
+  /* We need to copy the message as this function can be called for MySQL 4.1
+     scramble which is not zero ended and can have zeroes inside
+     We could just write zero to proper place in original message but
+     this would make it harder to understand code for next generations
+  */      
+
+  memcpy(message_buffer,message,SCRAMBLE_LENGTH); /* Ignore the rest */
+  message_buffer[SCRAMBLE_LENGTH]=0;
+  
+  /* Check if this exactly N bytes. Overwise this is something fishy */
+  if (strlen(message_buffer)!=SCRAMBLE_LENGTH)
+    return 1; /* Wrong password */
 
   hash_password(hash_message,message_buffer);
   if (old_ver)

sql/sql_parse.cc

@@ -195,8 +195,6 @@ static int check_user(THD *thd,enum_server_command command, const char *user,
   thd->db_length=0;
   USER_RESOURCES ur;
 
-  if (passwd[0] && strlen(passwd) != SCRAMBLE_LENGTH)
-    return 1;
   /* We shall avoid dupplicate user allocations here */
   if (!thd->user && !(thd->user = my_strdup(user, MYF(0))))
   {