Ever wanted to use your server's OS for authenticating MySQL
users ? Or the corporate LDAP repository ?Unfortunately options
like the above are plentiful nowadays. And providing hard-coded
support for protocol X or service Y is not the best possible
idea.
MySQL 5.5 has taken the step into the right direction by
providing an infrastructure allowing one to make the server
understand different authentication protocols by creating a set
of simple plugins (one for the client and one for the server).So
now you can easily extend MySQL to search for and authenticate
users in your favorite user directory.In fact the API supplied is
so versatile that we took the possibility to re-design the
current "native" authentication mechanism into a built-in
always-on plugin !
OK, let me give you an example:
Imagine we have a bunch of users defined in your OS, e.g. we have
a user joro with his respective password. And we
have a MySQL …
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