In this primer I will show how to improve the security of your
MariaDB installation by using two-step
verification and how to use it from your Windows GUI
client.
Let’s suppose you have your data in MariaDB, installed, say, on
Ubuntu. And your users connect to it to run ad hoc queries, using
some sort of a Windows GUI client. You don’t want them to write
the access password on post-it notes or have it auto-entered by
the client. And you don’t want anyone see the password when one
of the salespersons connects to the mother ship from his laptop
in the Internet café. So you decide to use the two-step
verification, just like Google does, to secure the access to the
data.
If you don’t know what a “two-step verification” is, see, for
example, this introductory video by Google.
So, 2-step verification looks great, but how …
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