-PHPAPI const char * const mysqlnd_old_passwd = "mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication";
+PHPAPI const char * const mysqlnd_old_passwd = "mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using the old insecure authentication. Your password has length of 16. "
+"Please execute the SET PASSWORD command (`SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('your_existing_password')`) with the "
+"help of a administration tool to set your password again. This will store a new, and more secure, hash value with the length of 41, in mysql.user. If you are using PHP 5.2 or earlier to "
+"connect to this database you might need to remove the old-passwords flag from your my.cnf";
+
PHPAPI const char * const mysqlnd_server_gone = "MySQL server has gone away";
PHPAPI const char * const mysqlnd_out_of_sync = "Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now";