Desired Outcome: establish an SSL connection to Amazon's RDS system using MySQL.

Here's the docs according to Amazon.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/UsingWithRDS.SSL.html

After creating a user that requires SSL with the above instructions, I can easily connect using the command line:

mysql -u myuser -p -h myhost.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com --ssl-ca=cert/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem --ssl-verify-server-cert

I just want to point out that I'm NOT using SSL to authenticate. Just to establish a secure link and verify the server, hence the need to enter my user/pass.

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect(
   "DBI:mysql:Test:myhost.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306;mysql_ssl=1
+",
   "myuser","****") || die DBI->errstr;

$dbh->disconnect;

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The relevant docs for DBD::mysql are located here: DBD::mysql#mysql_ssll

Considering that I'm not authenticating, I thought maybe I could get away with just setting mysql_ssl=1 and according to this post:

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?38,520999,525084

that should be all I need (but it's using a language I will not mention here).

when that returned

Access denied for user 'myuser'@'xx.x.x.xxx'

I tried various combinations of:

DBI:mysql:Test:myhost.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306;mysql_ssl=1;mysql_ssl_ca_file=./cert/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem

and

DBI:mysql:Test:myhost.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306;mysql_ssl=1;mysql_ssl_ca_file=rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem;mysql_ssl_ca_path=./cert/

to no avail even after changing the settings to use full paths instead of relative ones.

Turning off SSL for myuser on MySQL and removing mysql_ssl=1 from the DBI connection works perfectly, but I'm stumped as to why I'm unable to connect with SSL. Advice has run the gamut from using Expect with mysql-client to writing a proxy server in some other language to forgetting about SSL completely...

Has anyone had luck with using DBI and connecting to MySQL on Amazon's RDS via SSL? If so, I beg of you to impart your vast wisdom in the ways of the... TIA :)

In reply to AWS RDS MySQL SSL by yxes

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