On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:42:49PM -0700, Mike Klein wrote: > Sorry for repeat email...but this seems like an omission in mysql > functionality. > > Sooo many apps come w/pam support, or the ability to use ssl. > > I realize that in order to use an ssl cert, you'd somehow need to lookup the > subject dn in the cert and go against ldap to get a uname/pwd, etc. > > >From a web application, like php, I know I can use existing auth name/pwd > vars and pass them thru to mysql...works great. Other web content mgmt > systems (Cocoon) and things like JSP could easily do the same thing. > > But I'm tired of entering my uname/pwd on the command line!! > > There must be something I'm missing in getting this to happen. > > I really don't want to write a script that does this as I generally don't > like to keep creds in anything except root-owned /etc/shadow, etc. > > Then again, a user's private certs are only protected by the user's own > credentials...so I guess it wouldn't be TOO stupid to create a script owned > by user that passes user password thru to mysql...but this smells hacky (not > in good sense).
MySQL *does* have SSL support, but not PAM. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.15-Yahoo-SMP: up 18 days, processed 642,017,328 queries (412/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
