Hello –<br><br> <br><br>I am having an issue configuring openLDAP to authenticate users on an instance in RHEL (CentOS 7)<br><br> <br><br>MariaDB server<br><br>configured with plugin-load=auth_pam.so<br><br>in my /etc/pam.d/mysql:<br>auth required pam_ldap.so<br>account required pam_ldap.so<br><br>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.<br><br>When I try and access the server from outside the network, on the mariadb server in /var/log/secure I see the following:<br><br>Jan 19 08:32:35 mysqld: pam_ldap(mysql:auth): unexpected response from failed conversation function<br><br>Jan 19 08:32:35 mysqld: pam_ldap(mysql:auth): conversation failed<br><br>Jan 19 08:32:35 mysqld: pam_ldap(mysql:auth): failed to get password: Authentication token manipulation error<br><br><br>And in my client (Cygwin) I get the following error:<br><br><br>ERROR 2059 (HY000): Authentication plugin &#39;mysql_clear_password&#39; cannot be loaded: No such file or directory<br><br><br>However I see this plugin in the /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin directory<br><br><br>Any idea what is going wrong with remote logins?  Thanks-