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 Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.5 SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.6 Client-Side Cleartext Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.7 PAM Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.8 Windows Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.9 LDAP Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.10 No-Login Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.11 Socket Peer-Credential Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.12 Test Pluggable Authentication

6.4.1.13 Pluggable Authentication System Variables

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 6.2.13, “Pluggable Authentication”.

The default plugin is indicated by the value of the default_authentication_plugin system variable.