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Google Summer of Code 2013

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We plan to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013. MariaDB and the MariaDB Foundation believes we are making a better database that remains a drop-in replacement to MySQL. We also work on making LGPL connectors (currently in C, Java, C++ in development) and we also work on MariaDB Galera Cluster which allows you to scales your reads & writes.

Where to start

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LDAP authentication plugin

We would like the authentication system to be able to authenticate against a LDAP Directory Server. Skills: C, working knowledge of LDAP Mentor:

Kerberos authentication plugin

Kerberos is a security mechanism used in a lot of financial institutions. A MySQL plugin that allows authentication against Kerberos is the goal here. Skills: C/C++, working knowledge of Kerberos Mentor:

Active Directory authentication plugin

The Microsoft Windows world is all about Active Directory and upstream MySQL Enterprise already has this feature (though its a paid offering). It would be great to have an opensource equivalent. Skills: C/C++, working knowledge of Active Directory/SAMBA, Windows-based development environment Mentor:

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