Remote MySQL backend encryption

[Alan Buxey]

Hi,

> This has nothing to do with how many MySQL servers you've got or how 
> you're doing replication, encryption occurs on a per connection basis 
> (e.g. connections established via rlm_sql_mysql). rlm_sql_mysql never 
> opens an encrypted session with it's server because rlm_sql_mysql does 
> not have an option to set SSL/TLS transport (e.g. does not call 
> mysql_ssl_set()). That probably would be a good feature to add.

indeed, currently you have to drop out of the SQL module method
and use eg PERL with the relevant SQL stuff coded in PERL instead

alan