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Hi sergii i have some working knowledge of ldap not much though but I think it will be great for MariaDb to incorporate an ldap plugin that could be used by organisations running ldap servers and running mariadb. For example most large organisations keep information about their workers in a directory service on the servers. Rather that creating users tables to hold this info in mariaDb will take too much time. Managing this table is also a huge task which can also reduce performance due to overpopulation. The ldap plugin will serve as an interface between mariadb and the directory service such that info can be retrieved with ease.
The cool stuff with ldap is that if a request is made to the directory service and the requested data is not there, a reference to another directory service that contains it is returned. The Ldap plugin if incorporated into mariadb can be used to authenticate users since in runs directly on the TCT/IP stack.
Please write me if you need more explanation that will convince mariadb developpers to include this task at GSoc 2015 maybe a draft proposal. Best regards. Chick
I'm afraid you've missed the point. One can already enjoy all the above by using pam_ldap.so module and the MariaDB PAM authentication plugin. MariaDB works with LDAP just fine already (via pam).
The question is what benefits does a separate LDAP authentication plugin offers. Why users might want to use an an LDAP authentication plugin over the combination of pam_ldap.so and PAM authentication plugin.