[KLUG Programming] mysql authentication

[Adam Williams]

> Hello!Tony.  As I was searching on the net for a useful method to
> implement a single passwword to authenticate users to mysql using LDAP
> and Novell NDS, I read a questions you posted in one of the forum.  If
> you have resolve the problem, please assist me in solving it.  I am
> using mysql, php,ldap, and Novell NDS server.  My effort is to use the
> assisting NDS username and password for the users to use my web
> application.  This will prevent the hassle of having to remember more
> than one password.  Please help!

I think the answer is definitely "No".  I pulled the source for 4.0.14,
and groused around.  The strings: LDAP, ldap, libpam, or PAM; simply
don't exist anywhere in the source.  It is pretty hard to believe, but
even ./configure --help doesn't reveal any clues that external user
authentication methods are supported.

Apparently MySQL does support CORBA UDFs (seems rather helter-skelter to
have CORBA support but not even PAM support... life is wierd) and that
might possibly help.  But I can't find anything resembling documentation
about this feature.  The PDF manual doesn't even contain the string
"corba".

Oh, well.  At least come the next release of the application we use I
get to yank MySQL.