Announcing PAM authentication plugin for MySQL (early access release)

We are pleased to announce availability of an early access version of Percona’s PAM Authentication plugin for MySQL. This plugin supports MySQL-5.5.x, Percona Server 5.5.x and MariaDB 5.2.x. The PAM Authentication plugin can be used for:

• MySQL authentication using operating system users (pam_unix)
• MySQL authentication from LDAP server (pam_ldap)
• authentication against RSA SecurID server
• any other authentication methods that provides access via PAM

We name it early access as it does not yet have the full list of features we want to implement. It is currently functional and we want to make it available for everybody. In this version you still need to create individual users in MySQL (even though they will be authenticated via PAM), in the final (non-early access) version this restriction will be removed. Percona PAM Authentication Plugin for MySQL as always, is fully open source, free of charge and can be used on an unlimited amount of servers. Resources:

• Documentation
• Binaries and source code
• Launchpad project
• Bug tracker
• Discussion group