Re: MySQLnd support for ed25519

Hi Dimi, I think mysql 8 is the new version of mysql. I don't know if there a exists a stable release or only a beta. My thoughts are that the last php-version maybe can handle the mentioned authentication method or you have to try to compile the handling for the mysql-plugin in the php-mysqldriver. Maybe the question about enhancing the php is relation on the Linuxdistribution.  Here I mean an additional rpm if you use Redhat, Fedora, Centos, Suse... or .deb if you use Debian, Ubuntu or such of these. To mix a tarball with one of these packages I think it is to difficult in this case. Regards, Ruprecht Am 08.09.21 um 15:20 schrieb dimi_php:

Hi Ruprecht, yes, if a provider not changed the default authentication (mysql_nativ_password) there is nothing customers have to do, because the default authentication on mysql 5.7 and 10.5 is the same (SHA-1 based). Mysql changed this starting from version 8, were the default authentication now is the plugin caching_sha2_password. Mariadb not changed the default, but recommends to use a safer authentication method like the ed25519-plugin. I would like to use it, but then i have the problem that PHP (the Mysql nativ driver) cames with an error like "The server requested authentication method unknown to the client". So i would be glad if this authentication method would be implemented. Regards, Dimi