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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-12-29 04:15:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-12-29 04:15:38 +0000 |
| commit | ea63bf6ac83af97f36e5653fa7d3269958bd067a (patch) | |
| tree | d5e86fedd430015e2970d1d213e49a66f4821dd8 | |
| parent | a8c2282fe82651f8f81fa55b40ac339033e01888 (diff) | |
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Update docs mentioning PAM doesn't work reading /etc/passwd because of
non-root.
Dhanaraj M
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index 4e874b72720..20eb31fbfc3 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.104 2007/11/14 14:25:55 mha Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.105 2007/12/29 04:15:38 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="client-authentication"> <title>Client Authentication</title> @@ -1079,11 +1079,10 @@ ldap[<replaceable>s</>]://<replaceable>servername</>[:<replaceable>port</>]/<rep <note> <para> - PAM does work authenticating against Unix system authentication - because the postgres server is started by a non-root user. In order - to enable this functionality, the root user must provide additional - permissions to the postgres user (for reading - <filename>/etc/shadow</>). + If PAM is set up to read <filename>/etc/shadow</>, authentication + will fail because the PostgreSQL server is started by a non-root + user. However, this is not an issue with LDAP or other authentication + methods. </para> </note> </sect2> |