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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Vladislav!

On Jul 14, Vladislav Vaintroub wrote:
> Hi Serg,
> is there any possibility to return own error messages and codes , if
> pluggable authentication failed on client on some reason ?
> 
> Case in point here is Kerberos (GSSAPI or SSPI) - it may fail on client or
> on server, with some GSSAPI/SSPI specific code. We would like user to know
> what exactly happened , rather than return a generic CR_ERROR.  Perhaps user
> can fix the situation - maybe he just needs to obtain Kerberos ticket with
> kinit, or  login as Windows domain user, or something like that. If error
> happens on the server side, at least there it is possible to write to error
> log. But on the client side, there is no error log, and writing to
> stdout/err is not a good idea.  Is there a trick that allows custom messages
> on the client?

On the server, I suppose, you can stil use my_error() and co.

On the client - libmysql uses set_mysql_extended_error() - is it
exported to plugins? If yes - you're good. If not, we can, probably,
export it.

Regards,
Sergei