MaxScale Authentication

Learn about authentication in MariaDB MaxScale. This section covers configuring user authentication for clients connecting through MaxScale and securing access to your database instances.

Overview

In MariaDB MaxScale, authenticators perform the following tasks:

• Authenticating clients that connect to MaxScale

• Authenticating connections to back-end MariaDB Enterprise Server and MariaDB Xpand nodes

• Deciding how authentication should be performed

Authenticators Supported by MaxScale

• GSSAPI Authenticator

• Native Authenticator

• PAM Authenticator