6.4.1 Authentication Plugins

6.4.1.1 Native Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.2 Old Native Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.3 Migrating Away from Pre-4.1 Password Hashing and the mysql_old_password Plugin

6.4.1.4 SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.5 Client-Side Cleartext Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.6 PAM Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.7 Windows Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.8 Socket Peer-Credential Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.9 Test Pluggable Authentication

The following sections describe pluggable authentication methods available in MySQL and the plugins that implement these methods. For general discussion of the authentication process, see Section 6.2.11, “Pluggable Authentication”.

The default plugin is mysql_native_password unless the --default-authentication-plugin option is set otherwise at server startup.