diff --git a/mysql-test/lib/mtr_cases.pl b/mysql-test/lib/mtr_cases.pl
index 22290a88d39..28c78fbffeb 100644
--- a/mysql-test/lib/mtr_cases.pl
+++ b/mysql-test/lib/mtr_cases.pl
@@ -498,6 +498,17 @@ sub collect_one_test_case($$$$$$$) {
   {
     mtr_options_from_test_file($tinfo,"$testdir/${tname}.test");
 
+    if ( defined $::used_default_engine )
+    {
+      # Different default engine is used
+      # tag test to require that engine
+      $tinfo->{'ndb_test'}= 1
+	if ( $::used_default_engine =~ /^ndb/i );
+
+      $tinfo->{'innodb_test'}= 1
+	if ( $::used_default_engine =~ /^innodb/i );
+    }
+
     if ( $tinfo->{'big_test'} and ! $::opt_big_test )
     {
       $tinfo->{'skip'}= 1;
diff --git a/mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl b/mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl
index a98d94ae9eb..190a46bbb9c 100755
--- a/mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl
+++ b/mysql-test/mysql-test-run.pl
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ our $path_sql_dir;
 our @data_dir_lst;
 
 our $used_binlog_format;
+our $used_default_engine;
 our $debug_compiled_binaries;
 our $glob_tot_real_time= 0;
 
@@ -520,7 +521,7 @@ sub command_line_setup () {
              'compress'                 => \$opt_compress,
              'bench'                    => \$opt_bench,
              'small-bench'              => \$opt_small_bench,
-             'with-ndbcluster'          => \$opt_with_ndbcluster,
+             'with-ndbcluster|ndb'      => \$opt_with_ndbcluster,
              'vs-config'            => \$opt_vs_config,
 
              # Control what test suites or cases to run
@@ -777,6 +778,26 @@ sub command_line_setup () {
     mtr_report("Using binlog format '$used_binlog_format'");
   }
 
+
+  # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  # Find out default storage engine being used(if any)
+  # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  if ( $opt_with_ndbcluster )
+  {
+    # --ndb or --with-ndbcluster turns on --default-storage-engine=ndbcluster
+    push(@opt_extra_mysqld_opt, "--default-storage-engine=ndbcluster");
+  }
+
+  foreach my $arg ( @opt_extra_mysqld_opt )
+  {
+    if ( $arg =~ /default-storage-engine=(\S+)/ )
+    {
+      $used_default_engine= $1;
+    }
+  }
+  mtr_report("Using default engine '$used_default_engine'")
+    if defined $used_default_engine;
+
   # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
   # Check if we should speed up tests by trying to run on tmpfs
   # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -902,10 +923,6 @@ sub command_line_setup () {
   # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
   # Ndb cluster flags
   # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  if ( $opt_with_ndbcluster and !$opt_bench)
-  {
-    mtr_error("Can only use --with-ndbcluster together with --bench");
-  }
 
   if ( $opt_ndbconnectstring )
   {
@@ -5037,7 +5054,7 @@ Options to control what engine/variation to run
   skip-ssl              Dont start server with support for ssl connections
   bench                 Run the benchmark suite
   small-bench           Run the benchmarks with --small-tests --small-tables
-  with-ndbcluster       Use cluster as default table type for benchmark
+  ndb|with-ndbcluster   Use cluster as default table type
   vs-config             Visual Studio configuration used to create executables
                         (default: MTR_VS_CONFIG environment variable)
 
diff --git a/mysql-test/r/openssl_1.result b/mysql-test/r/openssl_1.result
index 34d8e3ab768..92900ac1a83 100644
--- a/mysql-test/r/openssl_1.result
+++ b/mysql-test/r/openssl_1.result
@@ -51,3 +51,5 @@ SSL error: Unable to get private key from ''
 mysqltest: Could not open connection 'default': 2026 SSL connection error
 SSL error: Unable to get certificate from ''
 mysqltest: Could not open connection 'default': 2026 SSL connection error
+Variable_name	Value
+Ssl_cipher	DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
diff --git a/mysql-test/t/openssl_1.test b/mysql-test/t/openssl_1.test
index 8772b8157e3..362443023e1 100644
--- a/mysql-test/t/openssl_1.test
+++ b/mysql-test/t/openssl_1.test
@@ -96,4 +96,11 @@ drop table t1;
 --error 1
 --exec $MYSQL_TEST --ssl-cert= --max-connect-retries=1 < $MYSQLTEST_VARDIR/tmp/test.sql 2>&1
 
-
+#
+# Bug#25309 SSL connections without CA certificate broken since MySQL 5.0.23
+#
+# Test that we can open encrypted connection to server without
+# verification of servers certificate by setting both ca certificate
+# and ca path to NULL
+#
+--exec $MYSQL --ssl --ssl-key=$MYSQL_TEST_DIR/std_data/client-key.pem --ssl-cert=$MYSQL_TEST_DIR/std_data/client-cert.pem -e "SHOW STATUS LIKE 'ssl_Cipher'" 2>&1
diff --git a/vio/viosslfactories.c b/vio/viosslfactories.c
index e4d856624d3..d318f1b0122 100644
--- a/vio/viosslfactories.c
+++ b/vio/viosslfactories.c
@@ -309,6 +309,14 @@ new_VioSSLConnectorFd(const char *key_file, const char *cert_file,
 {
   struct st_VioSSLFd *ssl_fd;
   int verify= SSL_VERIFY_PEER;
+
+  /*
+    Turn off verification of servers certificate if both
+    ca_file and ca_path is set to NULL
+  */
+  if (ca_file == 0 && ca_path == 0)
+    verify= SSL_VERIFY_NONE;
+
   if (!(ssl_fd= new_VioSSLFd(key_file, cert_file, ca_file,
                              ca_path, cipher, TLSv1_client_method())))
   {