Hi! > I've tried setting the $conf['passcrypt'] in local.php to md5, yet I > get these same errors. Has anyone else tried using authtype mysql, and > tried connecting to a database? I know I've successfully connected to > the database, yet I keep getting these "Sorry, wrong username or > password" errors, no matter what I type. Is there anything extra I can > add to a file to make it show a more verbose error? place say > mysql_error() somewhere? Could you post your SQL statements used in your configfile? As stated on wiki:auth_mysql: In the devel version the passcheck string needs to return the crypted password from the database. The %p parameter now contains the crypted password So you probably need to change the passcheck option. Andi