…: authentication via PAM, authentication via HTTP, various DATA_DICTIONARY tables, the Drizzle protocol plugin, authentication from a file, MySQL UNIX socket protocol, javascript plugin, authentication via tables (similar to MySQL), RabbitMQ, regex policy, logging to syslog, authentication…
Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 5, 2012 By 17 Comments
… lot of things. Here are some of the highlights: Pluggable authentication so you can integrate MariaDB with external auth systems Dynamic… optimizer improvements. Even the standard MySQL 5.5 offers pluggable authentication; you just have to pay for the plugin if you… the official Oracle one; or you can use Percona’s PAM plugin. MariaDB 5.3 isn’t the only exciting thing…
Post: Announcing PAM authentication plugin for MySQL (early access release)
December 5, 2011 By 3 Comments
….x. The PAM Authentication plugin can be used for: MySQL authentication using operating system users (pam_unix) MySQL authentication from LDAP server (pam_ldap) authentication against RSA… they will be authenticated via PAM), in the final (non-early access) version this restriction will be removed. Percona PAM Authentication Plugin for MySQL…
Comment: Announcing PAM authentication plugin for MySQL (early access release)
December 5, 2011 By 3 Comments
… the audit plug-in interface, and your PAM authentication plug-in (hopefully implementing the proxy users authentication plug-in feature), real role-based…
Comment: Announcing PAM authentication plugin for MySQL (early access release)
December 6, 2011 By 3 Comments
Quite useful. The most utility I guess comes from “any other authentication methods that provides access via PAM” .. PAM gives you the freedom to stack authentication/authorization methods (including ldap, rsa and unix) to the choice of user/customer.
