Thanks .. you probabaly know that I am not a developer rmyself (I basically stopped being so when ALGOL died 35 years ago!). I have shared all information with SQLyog developer team and we will look into this again.
-- Peter On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Sergei Golubchik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Peter! > > On Oct 13, Peter Laursen wrote: > > To make it clear: it is not acceptable/not a usable solution for us if it > > is a requirement that a MariaDB server is installed on user's system. The > > client (in case SQLyog - but it could be any client) should work for > > connection to remote servers with no server at all installed on client > > machine. > > Yes, I understand (and agree!). > > MariaDB server is not needed. You only need mysql_clear_password.dll > that is put in the location where the client library expects it to. And > you can set this location with > > mysql_options(..., MYSQL_PLUGIN_DIR, "path"); > > Another option would be to compile the plugin into SQLyog. It's doable > too, but you need the source for the plugin (because it's not part of > the libmysqlclient). Luckily, the whole source of the plugin is: > > ========================================================= > static int clear_password_auth_client(MYSQL_PLUGIN_VIO *vio, MYSQL *mysql) > { > int res= vio->write_packet(vio, (const unsigned char *) mysql->passwd, > strlen(mysql->passwd) + 1); > return res ? CR_ERROR : CR_OK; > } > > mysql_declare_client_plugin(AUTHENTICATION) > "mysql_clear_password", "Georgi Kodinov", > "Clear password authentication plugin", > {0,1,0}, "GPL", NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, > clear_password_auth_client > mysql_end_client_plugin; > ========================================================= > > If you want it to be part of SQLyog, you put this code somewhere and call > > mysql_client_register_plugin(MYSQL*, _mysql_client_plugin_declaration_); > > Then you won't need a separate mysql_clear_password.dll > > Regards, > Sergei >
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