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  • Committer: Daniel Nichter
  • Date: 2011-08-13 20:41:38 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 2413.
  • Revision ID: daniel@percona.com-20110813204138-stxa89ca1t7cg1uy
Skeleton documentation for all plugins, more complete docu for first half of plugins.
Clean up plugin.ini titles and descriptions.
Reformat and reorganize root index.
Change Administrative to Administration and remove empty files (logging, etc.)
Add, fix, and tag documentation for functions.

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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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