MySQL 8.4 Release Notes
- 8.4.1.1 Native Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.2 Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.3 SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.4 Client-Side Cleartext Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.5 PAM Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.6 Windows Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.7 LDAP Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.8 Kerberos Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.9 No-Login Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.10 Socket Peer-Credential Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.11 WebAuthn Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.12 Test Pluggable Authentication
- 8.4.1.13 Pluggable Authentication System Variables
Note
If you are looking for information about the
authentication_oci plugin, it is MySQL HeatWave Service only.
See
authentication_oci
plugin, in the MySQL HeatWave Service manual.
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 8.2.17, “Pluggable Authentication”.
The default authentication plugin is determined as described in The Default Authentication Plugin.