We have the same problem. We cannot test either. But we have a few user reports. We will discuss what we can do. Is there any parameter or compile-time option we should be aware of? Any specific documentation somewhere? Anything? -- Peter On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.org> wrote:

Hi, Peter!

On Jun 04, Peter Laursen wrote:

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For clarity: a 'dummy' parameter doing nothing does not solve our problem. We actually want to build clients that can (also) connect to Oracle MySQL Enterprise servers configured to make use of Oracle's PAM implementation.

We build and distribute a cleartext plugin. And it can be used if the server requests. In a sense, in MariaDB a cleartext plugin is always enabled. So a dummy option is needed only to restore the binary protocol compatibility. That's my understanding, at least, but I don't have Oracle's PAM plugin, so I cannot test it.

But if you have verified that your client with our C connector can not connect to Oracle MySQL Enterprise server with the Oracle's PAM implementation - please submit a bug report, and we will fix it.

Regards, Sergei