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  • Committer: Mark Atwood
  • Date: 2011-09-13 19:54:55 UTC
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Authentication
 
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Authentication is any process by which you verify that someone is who they
 
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claim they are. [1]_  Drizzle authentication is handled by plugins; there
 
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are no grant or privilege tables.
 
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One or more authentication plugin must be loaded, else no connections can
 
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be made to Drizzle.  On most systems, the :doc:`/plugins/auth_all/index`
 
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plugin is loaded by default which, as its name suggests, allows all
 
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connections regardless of username or password.  (Some distributions enable
 
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the :doc:`/plugins/auth_file/index` plugin by default instead).
 
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`Choosing an authentication plugin, configuring it, and disabling all other
 
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authentication plugins should be one of your first administrative tasks.`
 
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The following authentication plugins are included with Drizzle:
 
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* :doc:`/plugins/auth_all/index`
 
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* :doc:`/plugins/auth_file/index`
 
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* :doc:`/plugins/auth_http/index`
 
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* :doc:`/plugins/auth_ldap/index`
 
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* :doc:`/plugins/auth_pam/index`
 
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.. rubric:: Footnotes
 
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.. [1] `Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html>`_