Authentication

MySQL

Expired MySQL passwords

Ronald Bradford
June 3, 2016

I was surprised to find on one of my websites the message “Connect failed: Your password has expired. To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords.

Databases Drizzle MySQL

Understanding Drizzle user authentication options – Part 2

Ronald Bradford
March 12, 2010

A key differentiator in Drizzle from it’s original MySQL roots is user based authentication. Gone is the host/user and schema/table/column model that was stored in the MyISAM based mysql.user table.