I would like to use Kerberos Authentication which is available under Oracle’s Enterprise MySQL distribution. Is this authentication feature available in the Percona MySQL Pro? Is it possible to drop-in the pro kerberos authentication library into XtraDB?
The only other option for password-less login seems to be using SSL certificates and creating users with ‘REQUIRE ISSUER … SUBJECT …’. Looking at the PAM and socket auth methods, these will only work (password-less) on the local DB server and not remotely.
Hi @damienka,
Percona MySQL does not have a native Kerberos plugin, but you can still accomplish this via the PAM plugin. Here is a relevant docs page, and a blog post: