In the last episode (Oct 13), Yannick Gingras said: > I have a computer lab where students learn bioinformatics. The > courses include a crash course on database and we want to use MySQL > since it is a popular engine for bioinformatics. > > No one like to remember multiple passwords and since want each > student to have its own MySQL user and database I wanted to make a > mapping between the database users and the posix users. > Unfortunately I can't find how to do that. > > Let's to be a bit more explicit on what I want to do, I would like > the user foo in MySQL to be authenticated though pam on the posix > user foo. That way if foo changes his password with passwd, he will > automatically change his MySQL password. This is what happens with > Postgresql with the shell command > > createuser foo > > Is it possible to do the same with MySQL?
Not yet, but it being looked at: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=4703 http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/PluggableAuthenticationSupport -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
