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[Felipe Gasper <felipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 Apr 2015 3:37 PM, Geoff Montee wrote:
> Hi Felipe,
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Felipe Gasper <felipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >          Is it possible to emulate user roles via PROXY in MariaDB?
> >
> >          Basically, I want to log in as “temp_w3gj6d6” but have the system
> > treat that user as “frank”, including setting of DEFINERs and the like.
> >
> >          I see that there is a PAM plugin in MariaDB .. has anyone used that
> > plugin to achieve this effect?
>
> Coincidentally, I have a blog post scheduled to be published to
> mariadb.com tomorrow that discusses how to use the PAM authentication
> plugin to do exactly what you are asking.

Sweet! I’ll look forward to it! :)

-FG