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Asked: 2018-02-08 21:39:48 +0800 CST

Is there a mysqlnd plugin to authenticate using ed25519

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I setup my mariadb root user to authenticate using ed25519. Now I want to login using phpmyadmin but I'm getting the error mysqli_real_connect(): The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [client_ed25519].

After some searching I found that mysqli manage the authentication process via the mysqlnd extension. Then I searched through the output of phpinfo() and found the following line under the mysqlnd section:

Loaded plugins mysqlnd,debug_trace,auth_plugin_mysql_native_password,auth_plugin_mysql_clear_password,auth_plugin_sha256_password

As you can see there is no plugin for ed25519 authentication. After searching in the PECL repository and in Google I haven't found how can I get/setup/install a mysqlnd plugin for ed25519 authentication. Is that even possible?

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1 Answers

  1. I solved this issue by installing libmariadbclient18:

    sudo apt install libmariadbclient18

    But am now stuck to use this authentication method with phpmyadmin.

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