Daniel: Have you thought about authorization for this? I mean we wouldn't want any old logged in user to be able to
SET GLOBAL auth_file.users=/home/hingo/igivemyselfrootpowers.users (Making the plugin reload the existing file will be helpful. But it might not be a good idea to allow to change that value.) henrik On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Daniel Nichter <dan...@percona.com> wrote: > Hi Anshu, > > Thanks for your interest in the dynamic plugins project/idea. I think > making auth_file dynamic is a good place to start because it's a pretty > simple plugin with clear testing. You can look at query_log to see how it > handles when a string variable (its log file) is changed; the same will > happen for auth_file: the user will change the users file, so the plugin > will need to close the current file, open the new file, parse it, etc. > > See also http://wiki.drizzle.org/GSOC_2012/specs/dynamic_plugins > > -Daniel > > Le 29 mars 2012 à 12:08, Anshu Kumar a écrit : > > Hey Guys, > > I am Anshu Kumar, an undergraduate, pursuing my graduation in Computer > Science and Engineering from ITBHU, India. I looked into the project ideas > of Drizzle for GSoc and I would like to improve the community by > contributing to it. As I dont have any prior experience working with > Drizzle, I have started to explore the codebase for Drizzle. There was a low > hanging fruit filed as "regex_policy should use apache like ALLOW/DENY". I > have uploaded a patch solving the same which you can check here. On the GSoc > ideas a page, the project which interests me in "Making all plugins > dynamic". Can you please provide me some information about this project on > which I can start off working with. > > -- > Regards, > Anshu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : drizzle-discuss@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +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 : drizzle-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
