From user command line: for i in `seq 1 1000`; do mysql -u root --password=bad -h 127.0.0.1 2>/dev/null; done Confirmed it gets in easily on: Ubuntu 11.10 (G

From user command line: for i in `seq 1 1000`; do mysql -u root --password=bad -h 127.0.0.1 2>/dev/null; done Confirmed it gets in easily on: Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-14-server x86_64) mysql 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 Does not seem to apply to: 5.1.58-1ubuntu1