(secure-auth) very old mysql. old django, up-to-date workstation

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Hello,

mysql server 3 

django 1.6.11

workstation: ubuntu wily (15.10) mysql client 5.6.27

I need to make Django recognize secure-auth=false or skip-secure-auth=true but so far I couldn't 

I tried in project/settings.py

        'OPTIONS': {

            'skip-secure-auth': 'true',

        },

        'OPTIONS': {

            'secure-auth': 'false',

        },

and combinations of '-' and '_', and False, FALSE, false (same for true).

Also tried:

        'OPTIONS': {

            'read_default_file': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'conf/my.cnf'),

        }

And in conf/my.cnf:

[client] (and mysql)

skip-secure-auth (and its variations)

None works.

Then I tried skip-secure-auth in /etc/mysql/my.cnf [mysql] and this works in the cli, but Django seems to ignore this file.

Does anybody have other ideas?

Thanks!

Norberto