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title: "Recent release of MariaDB 10.1.11 contains two new authentication plugins"
publish_date: 2016-02-01
author: "MariaDB"
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# Recent release of MariaDB 10.1.11 contains two new authentication plugins

The recent release of MariaDB 10.1.11 contains two new authentication plugins:

### [Named pipe plugin](https://staging-mdb.com/kb/en/mariadb/named_pipe-authentication-plugin/)

This plugins works only if user logs in using named pipe. It uses the operating system’s username of currently logged on user running the client program. The plugin mirrors functionality of the already existing [Unix socket authentication plugin](https://staging-mdb.com/kb/en/mariadb/unix_socket-authentication-plugin/) on Windows.

### [GSSAPI plugin](https://staging-mdb.com/kb/en/mariadb/gssapi-authentication-plugin/)

For this plugin, the more correct name would be [GSSAPI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSSAPI)/[SSPI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Support_Provider_Interface) plugin. It offer:

- Kerberos authentication, on Unixes (via GSSAPI) and Windows (via SSPI)
- Windows authentication, also in cases of standalone workstation (i.e outside of domain), via SSPI. Thus, this authentication plugins offers the functionality of [MySQL Enterprise Windows authentication plugin](<http://The functionality of this plugin offers https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/windows-authentication-plugin.html>) and plus cross-platform interoperability.

This plugin was first written by Shuang Qui during the Google summer of Code back in 2013, and also contains contributions by Robbie Harwood of Redhat. Thanks for your contributions!