MySQL 8.0 Release Notes
MySQL 8.0 Source Code Documentation
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- 6.4.1.1 Native Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.2 SHA-256 Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.3 Caching SHA-2 Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.4 Client-Side Cleartext Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.5 PAM Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.6 Windows Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.7 LDAP Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.8 No-Login Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.9 Socket Peer-Credential Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.10 Test Pluggable Authentication
- 6.4.1.11 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 6.2.17, “Pluggable Authentication”.
The default plugin is indicated by the value of the
default_authentication_plugin
system variable.