# Is Percona PAM Authentication plugin compatible with MySQL 5.7?

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**Created:** [May 9, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/is-percona-pam-authentication-plugin-compatible-with-mysql-5-7/4882 "2016-05-09T02:25:38Z")\
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Is Percona PAM Authentication plugin compatible with MySQL 5.7?

TIA,  
Vitaly

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Hi Vitaly,

It is not. Essentially, if you want it to work on MySQL 5.7, you will need to compile the plugin from source.