What were you trying to do that didn't work?

mariadb-connector-c started enforcing SSL conections in the 3.4.0 release, which landed in RHEL in late August. Since then, test using DBD::MariaDB fail upon connecting to the DB with "TLS/SSL error: SSL is required, but the server does not support it".

perldoc DBD::MariadDB says this:

mariadb_ssl
A true value enforces SSL encryption when connecting to the
MariaDB or MySQL server. A false value (which is default)
disables SSL encryption with the MariaDB or MySQL server.

I tried disabling SSL even explicitly setting mariadb_ssl=0, mariadb_ssl_optional=1 and mariadb_ssl_verify_server_cert=0 but none of it helped.

What is the impact of this issue to you?

DB server needs to have SSL set up correctly for DBD::MariaDB work at all. Documentation is misleading as the default behaviour is different than described (eventhough it is because change in the underlying mariadb-connector-c) and some of the mariadb_ssl* options do not work as documented.

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

perl-DBD-MariaDB-1.23-6.el10

How reproducible is this bug?:

Always

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