[KLUG Members] RH Mysqld & PAM

[Adam Williams]

Does the mysql-server package on RedHat support PAM authentication?

[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ ldd /usr/bin/safe_mysqld
        not a dynamic executable
[awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ ldd /usr/libexec/mysqld
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4002c000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40030000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4003e000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4006c000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x40081000)
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4008f000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40142000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40164000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Doesn't look like it.  Can it at least chitty-chat with a helper process 
for authentication?  http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/User_names.html makes me 
think "no".

Our BIE (Business Integration Engine) uses MySQL to store its 
configuration information and I'd like to open it up for IP connections 
for members of a given group for administrative purposes - but it isn't 
worth making/maintaining user accounts/passwords in yet another place.

BIE has promised to drop the MySQL dependency in the next release, so it 
isn't the end of the world; would just be handy for now.