Hey there.  I am trying to get a local application which uses the mariadb client library to connect to a server with SSL.

On my client system, I have added “ssl-ca” and “ssl-verify-server-cert” to the [client] section of my my.cnf.  I can see these in effect with both “mariadb --help” and with “my_print_defaults client”.  And, using mariadb client itself with all of the right connection parameters (host/port/username/port/schema) it connects just fine.

However, a program of mine which uses mysql_real_connect() fails, reporting “Access denied for user ‘foo’@’ip’ (using password: YES)”.  This is, I assume, because the user on the database side requires ssl, and my client is not using ssl.

I’ve added:

(void)mysql_optionsv(conn, MYSQL_READ_DEFAULT_FILE, NULL);

Into my sources before calling mysql_real_connect().  I thought that would make it pull the params from the config file, and all should be good.  But, that’s clearly not enough.

Can someone help me figure out what I’m missing?  Thank you.

• Chris