* Add "Allow Cleartext Passwords" checkbox to MySQL connection settings
* Fix lint issues
* Add docs
* Add line break and bold text
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Co-authored-by: Zoltán Bedi <zoltan.bedi@gmail.com>
| **Name** | The data source name. This is how you refer to the data source in panels and queries. |
| **Default** | Default data source means that it will be pre-selected for new panels. |
| **Host** | The IP address/hostname and optional port of your MySQL instance. |
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| **Max open** | The maximum number of open connections to the database, default `100` (Grafana v5.4+). |
| **Max idle** | The maximum number of connections in the idle connection pool, default `100` (Grafana v5.4+). |
| **Auto (max idle)** | If set will set the maximum number of idle connections to the number of maximum open connections (Grafana v9.5.1+). Default is `true`. |
| **Allow cleartext passwords** | Allows using the [cleartext client side plugin](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/cleartext-pluggable-authentication.html) if required by an account, such as one defined with the [PAM authentication plugin](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/en/pam-authentication-plugin.html). <br/>**Sending passwords in clear text may be a security problem in some configurations**. To avoid problems if there is any possibility that the password would be intercepted, clients should connect to MySQL Server using a method that protects the password. Possibilities include [TLS / SSL](https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql#tls), IPsec, or a private network. Default is `false`. |
| **Max lifetime** | The maximum amount of time in seconds a connection may be reused, default `14400`/4 hours. This should always be lower than configured [wait_timeout](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_wait_timeout) in MySQL (Grafana v5.4+). |