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  • Committer: Stewart Smith
  • Date: 2011-03-29 01:30:47 UTC
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have CachedDirectory print out a warning if we can't stat() something in a directory. We should always have access to at least stat() things in directories Drizzle is running in (otherwise there is likely a problem)

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AUTHENTICATION
 
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For Drizzle, authentication is handled by plugins.
 
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Authentication is no longer based on the host/user and
 
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schema/table/column model that was used in the MyISAM-based mysql.user
 
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table.
 
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The pluggable model capitalizes on existing systems such as PAM, LDAP
 
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via PAM and HTTP authentication.
 
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