On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> wrote: > # Note that auth_pam authentication will send your password > unencrypted over the network! > # You should only use this kind of login as a convenience when using > localhost, otherwise > # it is very insecure! Consider commenting out this line on production > servers that don't need it.
That's a recipe for disaster. > plugin-add=auth_pam > > But if users then have to remember an awkward parameter to the drizzle > client, it defeats the purpose of being convenient. > > It's true that some of the things you'd traditionally set in the > client section of a my.cnf - such as desperately trying to force > everyone to use UTF-8 - don't matter for Drizzle as it is correct by > default :-) But users could have other needs, for instance why not set > --host --user and --password all in a config file? The code could be moved from the C++ to the C API. Olaf _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
