Hi, I just tested a switch from Percona Server 5.6 to MariaDB 10.0.16 and hit a problem with socket authentication. I had it set up to auth root using the auth_socket plugin, but when I switched to MariaDB I could no longer login as root. I get this error from the client: ERROR 1524 (HY000): Plugin 'auth_socket' is not loaded Anyway, after I bunch of investigation, I found that the plugin used to expose itself as socket_peercred but was renamed due to a conflict and Percona and MariaDB chose different names to fix it. Percona renamed it to auth_socket, matching the actual library filename auth_socket.so and MariaDB chose unix_socket, but keeping the filename auth_socket.so: https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/b8b7b4eb6bef26d05257272be02674ae551... https://github.com/percona/percona-server/commit/91a2afcbcba8af28d2f10f80830... This isn't great, but it's made worse because the plugin is successfully loaded in both cases (because the filename is auth_socket.so) and no errors are reported in the logs, but the plugin just exposes itself internally using a different name so reports that auth_socket isn't loaded in MariaDB. I fixed it by starting mysql with skip-grant-tables and running: update mysql.user set plugin='unix_socket' where plugin='auth_socket'; but that alone doesn't work, because MariaDB doesn't know that unix_socket is provided by auth_socket.so: ERROR 1524 (HY000): Plugin 'unix_socket' is not loaded So I then added this to the config file, which fixed it: plugin-load=unix_socket=auth_socket.so Any thoughts on what to do here? Can the plugin be made to recognise both names, so other users don't end up in this situation? I presume there would need to be both auth_socket.so and unix_socket.so. I also presume Percona would need to provide the same, to help those moving from MariaDB to Percona. Thanks, John. -- https://www.brightbox.com