percona-pam-for-mysql

  1. Bug #1274821
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1274821

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Nilnandan Joshi (nilnandan-joshi) wrote :

Confirmed with CentOS 5.9.

If we can add "account required pam_permit.so" in /etc/pam.d/mysqld then it will work otherwise it will not allow to login with linux password.

Without pam_permit.so,

[root@localhost ~]# mysql -u ap_user -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'ap_user'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

With pam_permit.so in /etc/pam.d/mysqld

[root@localhost ~]# mysql -u ap_user -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 7
Server version: 5.5.36-34.2 Percona Server (GPL), Release rel34.2, Revision 648

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