Hi Marc,

I would like to work on earlier idea and i need to clarify that implementing plug-able authentication for pma removed from gsoc project idea page because, 1. pma doesn't want that feature or 2. it's a useful feature but not suitable as gsoc project.

If the reason is second one, I would like to work on that(not as a gsoc project).

Thank you.

- Regards, Darshana.

________________________________ From: Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info To: phpmyadmin-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [Phpmyadmin-devel] Plug-able authentication for phpMyAdimin

Le 2012-03-09 22:42, Darshana Gunawardana a écrit :

Hi,

I would like to work on implementing plug-able authentication for pma. I found that idea from the pma gsoc 2012 project idea page before the modification is done. But now it currently not listed there and 'Plugins and OOP for import/export/transformations/authentication'[1] is the most similar topic to the previous one. Are those two have different scopes?

[1] http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/GSoC_2012_Ideas_List#Plugins_and_OOP_for_impo...

Regards. Darshana.

Indeed, those are two different ideas. In the previous version of the ideas page, the idea was about supporting MySQL 5.5 Pluggable authentication [0]. But this was removed because at the team meeting, we decided against adding new features during GSoC 2012.

The new idea is about converting the existing plugin code of various subsystems of phpMyAdmin, to a unique plugin interface.

[0] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/pluggable-authentication.html

Le 2012-03-10 07:47, Darshana Gunawardana a écrit :

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Hi Marc,

I would like to work on earlier idea and i need to clarify that implementing plug-able authentication for pma removed from gsoc project idea page because,

...

1. pma doesn't want that feature or
2. it's a useful feature but not suitable as gsoc project.

If the reason is second one, I would like to work on that(not as a gsoc project).

Thank you.

- Regards, Darshana.

Hi Darshana,

first, please use bottom-posting on this list, see [0].

To clarify, it's a useful feature but not for the next version (4.0). So if you work on this, be careful in synchronizing your tree with the official master branch because this summer will see much code refactoring.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Bottom-posting

-- Marc Delisle http://infomarc.info

Hi marc,

First, thank you for pointing out bottom-posting.

Since I have looked on this idea earlier, i already had general understanding about plug-able authentication in MySQL. To familiar with pma development, can you please suggest me any bug which would be relevent to this area.

Thank you,  - Regards, Darshana.