Hi, Peter!

On Jun 04, Peter Laursen wrote:

> 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