Enable "mysql_clear_password" plugin in phpMyAdmin

Question

I'm trying to enable our MySQL users to authenticate against our corporate user database via PAM (Kerberos). I can login with my credentials to our MySQL server with command line if I use "--enable-cleartext-plugin" in the command. If I try to login with phpMyAdmin I get the following information:

#2059 Cannot log in to the MySQL server

Is there a way to enable such plugin in phpMyAdmin without hacking any PHP files?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

For future reference: I fixed this by adding

mysqli_options($link, MYSQLI_READ_DEFAULT_FILE, '/etc/my.cnf');

in /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/libraries/dbi/mysqli.dbi.lib.php inside the function PMA_DBI_real_connect

With

[client]

enable-cleartext-plugin

in /etc/my.cnf