Hi, Felipe! On Apr 28, Felipe Gasper wrote:

So, I recently wrote an auth plugin with the intent of implementing a simple user map, authenticated against the hashed password that would be retrieved via the normal password entry scheme.

I got far too far along before realizing that this scheme basically requires that either the client use a plugin to communicate with the server auth plugin, or I use the old MySQL auth plugin.

yes :( the server is hard-coded to use built-in plugins when the standard mysql authentication is used.

...or is there some way to re-initialize secure MySQL auth from the server auth plugin??

I think so, yes. Your plugin should to declare that it needs "mysql_native_password" plugin on the client side. Then the server will notice that the client already uses mysql_native_password plugin and will only reinitialize the server part of the authentication without client noticing anything. Tell me if it'll work :) Regards, Sergei