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[Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well .. where will I find it documented how to use it with Oracle-MySQL
configured for their LDAP authenticaton setup? The same code that worked
with oracles API does not work with the MariaDB API.

- Peter

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Peter!
>
> On Sep 17, Peter Laursen wrote:
> > Around ˝ year ago I discussed with some people here (Sergei G and/or
> Georg
> > and/or Wlad) about support for Oracle-style plugins in the MariaDB C-API.
> > The plugins include
> >
> > 1 Windows authentication plugin
> > 2) Clear text plugin.
> >
> > At that time I was told that it could be considered 'by end end of this
> > year'.
> >
> > 1) Windows authentication plugin. Not very important, but Sergei told
> that
> > he had been playing wiht it and it could probably be done in ~1 day.
>
> Yes. Unfortunately because of "not very important" part it gets
> postponed over and over.
>
> > 2) This is used by Oracle for setting up LDAP.authentication.  I am very
> > well aware that there is criticism of Oracle's implementation.  But this
> > does not change the fact hat people use it with servers from Oracle and
> > expect clients to work with it. We get request(s) for it almost every
> week.
> > So this is most important (for us).
>
> What about clear text plugin? It is in 5.5 and in 10.0 and, as far as I
> remember, always was there. Do you mean it doesn't work for you for some
> reason?
>
> Regards,
> Sergei
>