Bug #74242 Wrong value returned by external_user variable
Submitted: 7 Oct 2014 5:04 Modified: 7 Oct 2014 9:53
Reporter: Davi Arnaut (OCA) Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Pluggable Authentication Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.6 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: external_user, proxy_user

[7 Oct 2014 5:04] Davi Arnaut 
Description:
The external_user variable inadvertently returns the value of proxy_user.

How to repeat:
https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/5.6/sql/sys_vars.h#L579
[7 Oct 2014 5:08] Davi Arnaut 
Fix wrong value for external_user

Attachment: Bug#74242-external-user.patch (application/octet-stream, text), 4.32 KiB.
[7 Oct 2014 9:53] MySQL Verification Team 
Hello Davi,

Thank you for reporting the issue, and supplying a patch along with it.
Verifying based on code inspection.

Also, could you please sign the OCA, so that we can consider taking your patch? Please see the following for more details:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html

Thanks,
Umesh