MySQL 5.7 enforce SSL

I'm using MySQL 5.7 and I want to set up SSL to force the client to use a cert. This cert is a self-signed cert that I generate. I have the cert for both server and client being: - CA - cert - key Where the CA has the cert for server and client. I then configured the config file (mysqld.conf) to use the cert: [mysqld] ssl ssl-ca=/database/mysql/ssl/ca-cert.pem ssl-cert=/database/mysql/ssl/master-public.pem ssl-key=/database/mysql/ssl/master-private.pem And run the command to enforce it: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database TO 'user'@'192.168.10.10' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' REQUIRE SSL; I can see SSL is enabled and it's picking up the right files running the command: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%ssl%'; However, from the client machine (192.168.10.10. in this example) I can connect via command line without specifying any cert and it just connects. I can see the connection is using SSL with: mysql> \s SSL: Cipher in use is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA But the idea is to allow t he connection only if I use the certs. Is there a way to enforce it to make sure it won't connect without specifying the cert ? So I can configure the application to use it and make sure other applications wouldn't access it.