As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how using the new dual passwords feature can reduce the overall DBA workload and streamline the management process. I’ve also covered how the new password failure tracking features can enable the locking of an account with too many failed […]
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As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how the new dual passwords feature can reduce the overall DBA workload and streamline the management process (see MySQL 8: Dual Passwords). This wasn’t the only change to user/password management in MySQL 8; one of the more security-focused changes […]
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Security is everybody’s concern when talking about data and information, and therefore it becomes the main foundation of every database. Security means protecting your data from unauthorized access. That means only authorized users can log in to a system called authentication; a user can only do what they are authorized to do (authorization) and […]
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Percona Server for MongoDB supports two different ways of authenticating against an LDAP service:
operating system libraries (aka Native LDAP)
saslauthd (aka LDAP proxy)
We’ve talked about the LDAP proxy option many times already. In this post, I am going to discuss the Native LDAP approach.
Note: for the purposes of the examples, I am considering a RHEL-based […]
PgBouncer is a great piece of technology! Over the years I’ve put it to good use in any number of situations requiring a particular type of control over application processes connecting to a postgres data cluster. However, sometimes it’s been a bit of a challenge when it comes to configuration.
Today, I want to demonstrate […]
