Hi!
Please see the Forge wiki and provide comments at the end of the technical
specification for pluggable authentication and authorization. Thanks!
Jay
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/PluggableAuthenticationSupport
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/PluggableAuthorizationSupport
On Friday 22 September 2006 12:45, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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/)
> > <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
