5.9 Authentication Options

Connector/ODBC supports different authentication methods, including:

• Standard authentication using a MySQL username and password, such as caching_sha2_password.

• The Kerberos authentication protocol for passwordless authentication. For more information about Kerberos authentication, see Kerberos Pluggable Authentication.

  Support added in Connector/ODBC 8.0.26 for Linux clients, and 8.0.27 for Windows clients.

• OpenID Connect is supported with the authentication_openid_connect_client client-side authentication plugin connecting to MySQL Enterprise Edition with the authentication_openid_connect authentication plugin.

  The required openid-token-file connection option defines a path to a file containing the JWT formatted identity token. TLS, socket, and shared memory connection methods are supported.

  Support was added in Connector/ODBC 9.1.0.

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) by utilizing the PASSWORD1 (alias of PASSWORD), PASSWORD2, and PASSWORD3 connection options. In addition there are PWD1, PWD2, and PWD3 aliases.

  Support added in Connector/ODBC 8.0.28.

• FIDO-based authentication is supported and Connector/ODBC supports the FIDO-based WebAuthn Pluggable Authentication plugin. See the general WebAuthn Pluggable Authentication documentation for installation requirements and implementation details.

  Note

  Support for the authentication_webauthn plugin was added in Connector/ODBC 8.2.0. Support for the authentication_fido plugin was added in 8.0.29, deprecated in 8.2.0, and removed in 8.4.0.

  A callback usage example:

  // SQL_DRIVER_CONNECT_ATTR_BASE is not defined in all driver managers.
  // Therefore use a custom constant until it becomes a standard.
  #define MYSQL_DRIVER_CONNECT_ATTR_BASE 0x00004000
  
  // Custom constants used for callback
  #define CB_FIDO_GLOBAL MYSQL_DRIVER_CONNECT_ATTR_BASE + 0x00001000
  #define CB_FIDO_CONNECTION MYSQL_DRIVER_CONNECT_ATTR_BASE + 0x00001001
  
  // Usage example
  // Callback function inside code:
  void user_callback(const char* msg)
  {
     // Do something ...
  }
  SQLHENV henv = nullptr;
  SQLAllocHandle(SQL_HANDLE_ENV, nullptr, &henv);
  
  // Set the ODBC version to 3.80 otherwise the custom constants don't work
  SQLSetEnvAttr(henv, SQL_ATTR_ODBC_VERSION,                               
  (SQLPOINTER)SQL_OV_ODBC3_80, 0);
  
  SQLHDBC hdbc = nullptr;
  SQLAllocHandle(SQL_HANDLE_DBC, henv, &hdbc);
  
  // CB_FIDO_X is either CB_FIDO_GLOBAL or CB_FIDO_CONNECTION
  SQLSetConnectAttr(hdbc, CB_FIDO_X, &user_callback, SQL_IS_POINTER);
  
  SQLDriverConnect(hdbc, hwnd, conn_str, ....);