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Right now if the user/password are wrong, you get an error message, and then you have to manually modify the MySQL user/password properties and then attempt to re-connect. Instead if we detect an authentication error we should silently log it and bring up a user/password dialog
http://hg.netbeans.org/main?cmd=changeset;node=09f2db24e1c6