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.

-- Peter

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@webyog.com> wrote:

yes .. in the Connector/C. We use C/C++ for both SQLyog and MONyog.

-- Peter

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.org> wrote:

Hi, Peter!

On Jun 04, Peter Laursen wrote:
> This is a continuation of
> https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/CONC-25. We requested support for
> the clear-text plugin (or a workaround of any kind) that would allow a
> client compiled with the MariaDB connector to use PAM authentication
> with MySQL Enterprise servers from Oracle.

Another related issue is https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4574
which should be fixed in 5.5.32, next 5.5 release.

But you, probably, want it in Connector/C, don't you?

Regards,
Sergei