Kerberos 5 and Mysql

Rohit Mehta rohitm at engr.uconn.edu
Tue Jan 29 01:28:20 EST 2013


If I had to do this, I would use MariaDB (based on the same source code 
as MySQL):

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/pam-authentication-plugin.html
https://kb.askmonty.org/en/pam-authentication-plugin/

Rohit
On 01/28/2013 11:53 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Fabian von Romberg wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> is it possible to integrate Kerberos 5 with Mysql as backend?
> Many things are possible, with varying amounts of effort.  I don't know of
> anyone who has done so, and it would probably require substantial
> engineering time to do so.  There might be a situation in which it makes
> sense to expend that effort, but it seems more likely that a preexisting
> backend such as LDAP is a more appriate use of resources.
>
> -Ben Kaduk
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