[MDEV-25515] Request: User Account Host Names using CIDR notation Created: 2021-04-25  Updated: 2023-11-30

Status: Open
Project: MariaDB Server
Component/s: Authentication and Privilege System, Server
Fix Version/s: None

Type: New Feature Priority: Minor
Reporter: Daniel Lewart Assignee: Ralf Gebhardt
Resolution: Unresolved Votes: 2
Labels: Compatibility, compat80

Issue Links:
PartOf
is part of MDEV-28906 MySQL 8.0 desired compatibility Open
Relates
relates to MDEV-25514 CREATE USER Host Name Component netma... Closed
relates to MDEV-30826 Invalid data on mysql.host segfaults ... Closed

 Description   

CIDR Notation was specified by RFC 4632 in 2006.
It is more compact than netmasks.
I would like to request CIDR notation as a new feature for User Account Host Names.

MySQL 8.0.23 has already done this with WL#14074:
https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=14074

Thank you!
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, Illinois
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