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Writing a MariaDB PAM Authentication Plugin
As you may know, since version 5.2.0 (released in April 2010) we support Pluggable Authentication. Using this feature one can implement an arbitrary user authentication and account management policy, completely replacing built-in MariaDB authentication with its username/password combination and mysql.user table.
Also, as you might have heard, Oracle has recently released a PAM authentication plugin for MySQL. Alas, this plugin will not run on MariaDB — although the MySQL implementation of pluggable authentication is based on ours, the API is incompatible. […]
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MariaDB Developer Meeting, Athens – 2011-11-13 Schedule
Here is the printed schedule for 2011-11-13: MariaDB-εφημερίδα-13-Nov-2011.pdf
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MariaDB Developer Meeting, Athens – 2011-11-12 Schedule
Here is the printed schedule for 2011-11-12: MariaDB εφημερίδα – 12 Nov 2011
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MariaDB Developer Meeting, Athens – 2011-11-11 Schedule
Here is the printed schedule for 2011-11-11: MariaDB-εφημερίδα-11-Nov-2011.pdf
(εφημερίδα = newspaper)
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Bzr and launchpad tricks: firefox plugin
If you work with bazaar, you have seen its URIs. You can find the complete list is in the bzr help urlspec. Although I commonly use only a subset of that, like bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2-serg/ and http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%2Bbranch/mysql-server/5.5/.
In addition I often use Launchpad aliases, such as lp:~maria-captains/maria/5.3-serg/, lp:maria/5.3, and lp:869001.
And finally, there are common abbreviations that we have used in MySQL, and others that we use in MariaDB, for example bug#12345 and wl#90.
What’s annoying, I need to remember that wl#90 […]
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bash completion for mysql-test-run
For many years I was using tcsh, with lots of useful customizations, that were created during these years. Now I have bash on my laptop and slowly adding what I’ve got used to.
Yesterday I’ve created command line completion rules for mysql-test-run. It’s not a complete set of everything that’s possible, still it’s quite useful as it is. I need to type much less now when invoking mysql-test-run (and I invoke it quite a lot). If you’d like to try […]
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Arch Linux users get MariaDB
If you happen to be using Arch Linux, you can now use MariaDB as it comes with it. Currently shipping 5.3.1 beta, it will be upgraded to the latest release soon. Find out how to get it installed.
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Events this week: Percona Live London, LinuxCon Europe
A big week for conferences in Europe this week. We’re starting it off at Percona Live London 2011 (see previous post), with both Sergei Golubchik and Colin Charles presenting talks on Tuesday 25 October 2011.
Right after, we’re headed to LinuxCon Europe, where Colin Charles will discuss The MySQL Diaspora and how there exists much choice for people today (it is not just stock MySQL one can use nowadays).
Monty Program is sponsoring both Percona Live London as well as […]