Error No. 2058 Plugin authentication_windows_client could not be loaded: The specified module could not be found

Question

MySQL has a plugin that allows user authentication against current user’s Windows credentials. The plugin is ‘authentication_windows.dll’.

I get the following error message from SQLyog:

Error No. 2058 Plugin authentication_windows_client could not be loaded: The specified module could not be found.

The “authentication_windows_client” is a dll that is supposed to be loaded on the client side. Actually I think that SQLyog is looking for an older dll which has been replaced by MySQL with ‘libmysql.dll’.

How do I make SLQyog load the correct dll?

Answer 1

Sqlyog included clear text and dialog plugin but due to license issue the are not able to support window authentication plugin.

so either you may purchase the product or go for crack otherwise you cannot use sqlyog along side with mysql until someone is not cracking...