From: Rick James
Date: August 21 2012 12:24am
Subject: RE: MySQL LDAP Authentication Plugin - Full example with source code
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Does that depend on mysql running as "root" in order to see /etc/shadow (or=
 whatever)?

If so, that is too big a security hole to do.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ignacio Ocampo [mailto:nafiux@stripped]
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 3:54 PM
> To: mysql
> Subject: MySQL LDAP Authentication Plugin - Full example with source
> code
>=20
> I have published in my blog, an full example (with source code) of a
> LDAP Authentication plugin for MySQL.
>=20
> http://nafiux.com/blog/2012/08/11/mysql-ldap-authentication-plugin/
>=20
> --
> Ignacio Ocampo