Feature: External Authentication for Windows support

[gsmedley]

MySQL (commercial) has a plugin for "External Authentication for Windows" which allows client programs to use their windows authentication instead of a username/password to sign in to mySQL. Would it be possible to add this to the mysql2 gem?

[sodabrew]

I would review a PR for this proposal but will not do the work myself.

[gsmedley]

Thanks for the quick response. I wanted to make sure it wasn't already being considered before looking any deeper.

[gsmedley]

@sodabrew Do you think you or another contributor would be interested in being paid to add this feature?

[kanayo]

Created a PR for this:

#1018

[gsmedley]

@sodabrew Just wondering if you've had a chance to review the PR. It really just exposes a method in the underlying client library, Thanks!