On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Daniel Nichter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le 30 juin 2011 à 16:43, Olaf van der Spek a écrit : >>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Daniel Nichter <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I just recompiled Drizzle from trunk (a day or two ago) on Ubuntu 10 and >>>> it still does not work. I'm approaching this from the user's point of >>>> view so I expect that it "just works" after --plugin-add auth_pam and >>>> drizzle --user daniel --password. The plugin is not documented so I'm out >>>> of troubleshooting resources. :-) >>> >>> What do you expect the password to be validated against? The system account? >> >> >> My understanding is that auth-pam is the same thing as system accounts. So >> if I log into my box with user=daniel password=foo, then drizzle >> --user=daniel --password=foo should work too. On other machines I checked >> that libpam is working ok and did other various tests that indicated that >> drizzle was not working (verses ilbpam or something else not working). > > From a security PoV it doesn't seem a good idea to share passwords > between system and DB accounts.
Windows and SQL Server do it all the time. What could go wrong... Seriously, it makes for a good default installation when compared to mysql shipping with empty root password. If you have shell login, you can use database. The original question remains thoug (and now I got qurious too): What is it supposed to do? henrik -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
