Hello – I am having an issue configuring openLDAP to authenticate users on an instance in RHEL (CentOS 7) MariaDB server configured with plugin-load=auth_pam.so in my /etc/pam.d/mysql: auth required pam_ldap.so account required pam_ldap.so when I try and access the server from either the localhost, or any server inside my internal network, I see the LDAP authentication happen without issue and login is fine. When I try and access the server from outside the network, on the mariadb server in /var/log/secure I see the following: Jan 19 08:32:35 mysqld: pam_ldap(mysql:auth): unexpected response from failed conversation function Jan 19 08:32:35 mysqld: pam_ldap(mysql:auth): conversation failed Jan 19 08:32:35 mysqld: pam_ldap(mysql:auth): failed to get password: Authentication token manipulation error And in my client (Cygwin) I get the following error: ERROR 2059 (HY000): Authentication plugin 'mysql_clear_password' cannot be loaded: No such file or directory However I see this plugin in the /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin directory Any idea what is going wrong with remote logins? Thanks-