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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index 4fe4b256aa2..7ba2a36e2c1 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ -<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.10 2001/03/15 20:01:32 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.11 2001/05/12 22:51:34 petere Exp $ --> <chapter id="client-authentication"> <title>Client Authentication</title> + <indexterm zone="client-authentication"> + <primary>client authentication</primary> + </indexterm> + <para> When a client application connects to the database server, it specifies which <productname>Postgres</productname> user name it wants to connect as, @@ -42,6 +46,10 @@ <sect1 id="pg-hba.conf"> <title>The <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> file</title> + <indexterm zone="pg-hba.conf"> + <primary>pg_hba.conf</primary> + </indexterm> + <para> Client authentication is controlled by the file <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> in the $PGDATA directory, e.g., @@ -333,6 +341,11 @@ host all 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 ident omicron <sect2> <title>Password authentication</title> + + <indexterm> + <primary>password</primary> + </indexterm> + <para> <productname>Postgres</> database passwords are separate from any operating system user passwords. Ordinarily, the password for each @@ -402,6 +415,10 @@ host all 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 ident omicron <sect2 id="kerberos-auth"> <title>Kerberos authentication</title> + <indexterm zone="kerberos-auth"> + <primary>Kerberos</primary> + </indexterm> + <para> <productname>Kerberos</productname> is an industry-standard secure authentication system suitable for distributed computing over a @@ -505,6 +522,10 @@ host all 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 ident omicron <sect2> <title>Ident-based authentication</title> + <indexterm> + <primary>ident</primary> + </indexterm> + <para> The <quote>Identification Protocol</quote> is described in <citetitle>RFC 1413</citetitle>. Virtually every Unix-like @@ -550,6 +571,7 @@ host all 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 ident omicron </para> <para> + <indexterm><primary>pg_ident.conf</primary></indexterm> Ident maps are held in the file <filename>pg_ident.conf</filename> in the data directory, which contains lines of the general form: <synopsis> |