https://www.percona.com/blog/introducing-the-ldap-authentication-plugin-in-percona-server-for-mysql-8-0-19/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:57:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.percona.com/blog/introducing-the-ldap-authentication-plugin-in-percona-server-for-mysql-8-0-19/#comment-10972067 Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:57:13 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=66271#comment-10972067 Yes, the password is transferred in plain text. LDAP and PAM authentication should be used over TLS for additional security. My favourite option would be to alter the user to require ssl always.

]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/introducing-the-ldap-authentication-plugin-in-percona-server-for-mysql-8-0-19/#comment-10972053 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 23:40:52 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=66271#comment-10972053 Is a user’s password sent in plain-text like auth_pam plugin?

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