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LDAP Improvements in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.30-22

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.30-22 introduces several improvements for the LDAP plugin: SASL support, support for fallback servers, and support for LDAP-based authorization. All improvements are in technical preview.

A description of the existing plugin features and usage instructions are available in the earlier blog post introducing the LDAP simple plugin, and in the Percona Server for MySQL documentation.

SASL connections

We introduced a new plugin similar to the MySQL …

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Authenticating MySQL 8.0 (Enterprise) against active directory

Recently our team was tasked to implement MySQL 8.0 in production for a client. While MySQL 8.0 is looking very promising and has a lot of cool new features and revamped old features, it’s still pretty young. The MySQL development team is working very hard on stabilizing the product but, reading the latest release notes for version 8.0.12, it is still very much a bugfix release and not something you will want to put in production immediately. Also, given the fact that a lot of tools such as Percona Xtrabackup do not support MySQL 8.0 yet, we were a bit reluctant to proceed with this idea. But … the client had a strong use case to make use of roles and resource groups and we like challenges so we decided to give it a go.

Another use case that was presented is the one where …

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Authenticating Vault Against LDAP for Accessing MySQL Through ProxySQL

Earlier this year, I was presented with the challenge of streamlining user access to MySQL, allowing users self-serve access using their LDAP credentials, while logging all access. Of course, various MySQL forks allow for user auditing, but the solution is also needed to eventually support other data storage systems without native user auditing. This gave me the opportunity to do a trial integration of MySQL, Vault, ProxySQL, and LDAP; Vault would be used to dynamically create user accounts, and ProxySQL would be used to limit access and log activity. To evaluate the functionality and configuration of the integration, I used Docker to set up a test environment.

Below I will present the methods used to:

  1. Provision the Docker environment.
  2. Configure OpenLDAP.
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LDAP with auth_pam and PHP to authenticate against MySQL

In the quest to secure MySQL as well as ease the number of complicated passwords to remember, many organizations are looking into external authentication, especially using LDAP. For free and open source, Percona’s PAM authentication plugin is the standard option.

tl;dr is I go through how to compile php-cli for use with auth_pam plugin.

Background
There are two plugins that can be used. From the documentation, the two plugins are:

  • Full PAM plugin called auth_pam. This plugin uses dialog.so. It fully supports the PAM protocol with arbitrary communication between client and server.
  • Oracle-compatible PAM called auth_pam_compat. …
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How to Setup and Troubleshoot Percona PAM with LDAP for External Authentication

In this blog, we’ll look at how to setup and troubleshoot the Percona PAM authentication plugin.

We occasionally get requests from our support clients on how to get Percona Server for MySQL to authenticate with an external authentication service via LDAP or Active Directory. However, we normally do not have access to client’s infrastructure to help troubleshoot these cases. To help them effectively, we need to setup a testbed to reproduce their issues and guide them on how to get authentication to work. Fortunately, we only need to install Samba to provide an external authentication service for both LDAP and AD.

In this article, I will show you how to (a) compile and install Samba, (b) create a domain environment with Samba, (c) add users and groups to this domain and (d) get Percona Server …

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LDAP Authentication in MySQL

We manage hundreds of servers and have a need to add and remove DBAs, application developers, and so on regularly. Doing this manually is just beyond the scope of what we can realistically manage. Since we are already using LDAP, we wanted to find a way to integrate it with MySQL.

After reading many, many articles and getting diverse opinions as to whether or not it was even possible, we decided to give it a try. From what we read, it appears that MySQL Enterprise edition does exactly what we want; unfortunately, we don’t have an Enterprise support contract ruling that out as an option. Knowing that Percona tends to mimic many of the Enterprise features, we decided to pursue doing this with Percona Server. Further reading showed this could be possible with the PAM plugin which would then authenticate via LDAP. A little indirect, but seemed like our only solution.

Since MySQL does not provide a community version of its LDAP …

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LDAP Authentication with MariaDB PAM Plugin

This is getting more and more common, so I wanted to provide the steps required to get LDAP authentication working with MariaDB PAM plugin.

Unless you’re already familiar with setting up the MariaDB PAM plugin, I’d first recommend getting this to work with a standard Linux user (steps 1-4), then once all is working fine, progress to the LDAP users (steps 5-10). (And if you do not want to test this for the Linux user account, then you may skip steps #2 and #3.)

  1. Enable plugin by running the following from the command line client:
    INSTALL SONAME 'auth_pam';

    You should see an entry like this afterward in SHOW PLUGINS:

        | pam | ACTIVE | AUTHENTICATION | auth_pam.so | GPL |
  2. Create the mysql user account (note it does not have a password, as it will obtain this from your Linux user, and eventually the LDAP account) and provide it with the GRANTS you want it to …
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ClusterControl 1.2.8 Released

September 17, 2014 By Severalnines

The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.8. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key new features below. 

 

Highlights of ClusterControl 1.2.8 include:

  • YUM/APT repositories for ClusterControl
  • Deployment and scaling of single-node MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB
  • Alerts and incident tracking with PagerDuty 
  • Unified Event Viewer
  • New flexible alarms/email notification system
  • Audit logging - Administrator activity tracking
  • Global MySQL User Management
  • New default dashboards for MySQL/MariaDB
  • Puppet Module …
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How to Setup Centralized Authentication of ClusterControl Users with LDAP

April 24, 2014 By Severalnines

ClusterControl 1.2.6 introduces integration with Active Directory and LDAP authentication. This allows users to log into ClusterControl by using their corporate credentials instead of a separate password. LDAP groups can be mapped onto ClusterControl user groups to apply roles to the entire group, so it is very convenient for larger organizations who have a centralized LDAP-compliant authentication system. This blog shows you how to configure LDAP authentication in ClusterControl, and allow users to use their Active Directory or LDAP username and password to log in to ClusterControl. 

 

LDAP authentication can be configured from ClusterControl, in the Admin dashboard (ClusterControl > Admin > LDAP Settings). If you are running ClusterControl v1.2.5 or older, please …

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ClusterControl 1.2.6 Released

April 22, 2014 By Severalnines

 

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The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.6. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key features below. 

 

Highlights of ClusterControl 1.2.6 include:

  • Centralized Authentication using LDAP or Active Directory
  • Role-Based Access Control 
  • OpenStack: Galera Deployment Automation
  • Hybrid setups with Galera and Asynchronous MySQL Replication
  • Manage multiple Galera …
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