Hi, Samarth! On Apr 20, Samarth Mathur wrote:

"See also the authentication plugin examples in plugin/auth/."

I couldn't locate this folder in the source code (mariadb 10). Does it not exist there?

No, but there are mariadb-10.0 $ ls -dl plugin/auth* drwx------ 3 serg serg 4096 Apr 20 10:13 plugin/auth_dialog drwx------ 3 serg serg 4096 Apr 20 10:13 plugin/auth_examples drwx------ 5 serg serg 4096 Apr 20 10:13 plugin/auth_pam drwx------ 3 serg serg 4096 Apr 20 10:13 plugin/auth_socket make your choice. Regards, Sergei