Hello guys,

Long time reader but this is my first question.

I have a MySQL server in a data center and processing servers in another place, therefore I need to encrypt connections from my Perl scripts to the database. All the necessary settings were made on MySQL (creation of a new user, creation of ca, server and client keys) and MySQL connections over SSL work fine.

root@server:# mysql -h _HOST_ --port 3306 -u _SSL_USER_ --ssl-cert=/et
+c/mysql/certs/client-cert.pem --ssl-key=/etc/mysql/certs/client-key.p
+em -p _DATABASE_
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 49694205
Server version: 5.0.96 Source distribution
...

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So, I believe set up is good. The problem is that I can't make my Perl script to connect to the database. The returned error is simply:

Access denied for user '_SSL_USER_'@'_HOST_' (using password: YES) at temp.pl line 7.

To simplify, I've put only the following code in my script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI;

#DBI->trace(5);
my $dbh = DBI->connect(
                        "DBI:mysql:database=_DATABASE_;host=_HOST_;
                        mysql_ssl=1;
                        mysql_ssl_client_key=/etc/mysql/certs/client-k
+ey.pem;
                        mysql_ssl_client_cert=/etc/mysql/certs/client-
+cert.pem;
                        mysql_ssl_ca_file=/etc/mysql/certs/ca-cert.pem
+",
                        '_SSL_USER_',
                        '_SSL_USER_PWD_'
                  ) || die DBI->errstr;
exit(0);

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The DBD::mysql module was compiled with the '-ssl' option.

I can't figure it out or find ways to further debug. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

In reply to DBI:mysql connection over SSL fails by Andre_C10002

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