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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2022-07-21 13:58:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2022-07-21 13:58:35 -0400 |
| commit | ea9581488bfa083a32b722dde16b67d4fa36f51a (patch) | |
| tree | df67f3c45c48a79d517742e67ce55c27bb65a83f | |
| parent | 5b5d4351398555d31b9419c764263981fa912755 (diff) | |
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doc: clarify that auth. names are lower case and case-sensitive
This is true even for acronyms that are usually upper case, like LDAP.
Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202205141521.2nodjabmsour@alvherre.pgsql
Backpatch-through: 10
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index ccd748d264a..1ff7852ab55 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -413,7 +413,9 @@ hostnogssenc <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>user</replaceabl <para> Specifies the authentication method to use when a connection matches this record. The possible choices are summarized here; details - are in <xref linkend="auth-methods"/>. + are in <xref linkend="auth-methods"/>. All the options + are lower case and treated case sensitively, so even acronyms like + <literal>ldap</literal> must be specified as lower case. <variablelist> <varlistentry> |