Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

Got this irritating message when I was working with a simple PHP /MySQL app I was trying out

Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

I just changed the database username for the  application and the error went missing

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html has some thoughts on the same

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