From: Dan Nelson Date: September 22 2006 4:45pm Subject: Re: MIT Kerberos integration with MySQL List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/202019 Message-Id: <20060922164528.GC73717@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the last episode (Sep 22), Whisler, David said: > Does anyone know if MySQL currently integrates with MIT Kerberos > authentication (http://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/) > . And if not, are they working on > this for a future release? MIT Kerberos has broad use in government, > academic and research institutions as well as some corporate > environments. In addition, Microsoft has implemented it's own > version of Kerberos. And Oracle integrates with it, which enables us > to have "single-sign on" for our Oracle Database applications once we > have logged into our network, but we'd like to have this same > function available for our MySQL databases as well. There's already a "Permit authentification outside of mysql" bug report filed: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=4703 Must be pretty far down on the todo list, though.. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@stripped