[gentoo-user] putting mysql databases from one system to another

I am trying to copy my databases from one system to another and since
one is 32-bit and the other is 64-bit, I was told that I could not copy
the binary  databases   directly, but I had to  do mysqldump and then
put that source file into the new system.  What I am getting is that the
passwords seem not to have gotten through -- the user names seem to be
there, but I cannot login with the passwords the user had in the old
system.

Can anyone tell me why this is so and what I can do to fix?

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

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