Bug #68507 Creating a new connection with clear text authentication fails
Submitted: 27 Feb 2013 7:47 Modified: 9 Jul 2013 0:23
Reporter: Jaime Sicam Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2.47CE OS:Windows
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[27 Feb 2013 7:47] Jaime Sicam 
Description:
When trying to setup a connection with MySQL using clear text authentication, connection fails with:

Cannot Connect to Database Server:
Your connection attempt failed for user 'pamuser' from your host at 10.0.0.10:3306: Authentication plugin 'mysql_clear_password' cannot be loaded:

How to repeat:
1. Setup a MySQL user that authenticates to PAM
2. Use the MySQL user credentials when setting up a new connection on Workbench
[26 Mar 2013 17:07] Armando Lopez Valencia 
Thanks a lot for your report.
Verified in:
Windows 7x64
WB 5.2.47
[9 Jul 2013 0:23] Philip Olson 
Fixed as of MySQL Workbench 6.0.1, and here's the changelog entry:

MySQL Workbench would fail to set up a connection with a MySQL user that
authenticated using "PAM".

Thank you for the bug report.