Session
Pluggable Authentication in MySQL and MariaDB

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October 25th, 2:00 PM
Ludgate Suite

Abstract

One of the newer and less known features in the MySQL and MariaDB Plugin API is the authentication plugin type. Still, it makes possible quickly and easily to extend the server to meet your security or usability requirements. One time passwords, single sign-on, roles, hardware tokens, password policies (such as expiration) - one can do it all now in MySQL and MariaDB by creating an appropriate plugin. This talk will explain how to do it. You will understand the logic of the authentication API and how to use this API to replace the native MySQL password-based authentication.

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Speaker

Sergei Golubchik

VP Architecture, MontyProgram Ab

Sergei was a MySQL developer since 1998. From 1999 to 2009 in MySQL AB, Sun, then in Monty Program AB on MariaDB. During these years he has touched almost every part of the server. To list a few projects – fulltext search, XA, HANDLER, precision math library, parallel repair and bulk inserts in MyISAM, indexes in MERGE. Sergei is a primary architect of the plugin API and an author of the “MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development” book.