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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/html/auth-methods.html b/doc/src/sgml/html/auth-methods.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52df71b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/html/auth-methods.html @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>21.3. Authentication Methods</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="auth-username-maps.html" title="21.2. User Name Maps" /><link rel="next" href="auth-trust.html" title="21.4. Trust Authentication" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">21.3. Authentication Methods</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="auth-username-maps.html" title="21.2. User Name Maps">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="client-authentication.html" title="Chapter 21. Client Authentication">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 21. Client Authentication</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.5 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="auth-trust.html" title="21.4. Trust Authentication">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" id="AUTH-METHODS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">21.3. Authentication Methods</h2></div></div></div><p> + <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> provides various methods for + authenticating users: + + </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-trust.html" title="21.4. Trust Authentication">Trust authentication</a>, which + simply trusts that users are who they say they are. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-password.html" title="21.5. Password Authentication">Password authentication</a>, which + requires that users send a password. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="gssapi-auth.html" title="21.6. GSSAPI Authentication">GSSAPI authentication</a>, which + relies on a GSSAPI-compatible security library. Typically this is + used to access an authentication server such as a Kerberos or + Microsoft Active Directory server. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="sspi-auth.html" title="21.7. SSPI Authentication">SSPI authentication</a>, which + uses a Windows-specific protocol similar to GSSAPI. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-ident.html" title="21.8. Ident Authentication">Ident authentication</a>, which + relies on an <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">Identification Protocol</span>”</span> + (<a class="ulink" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1413" target="_top">RFC 1413</a>) + service on the client's machine. (On local Unix-socket connections, + this is treated as peer authentication.) + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-peer.html" title="21.9. Peer Authentication">Peer authentication</a>, which + relies on operating system facilities to identify the process at the + other end of a local connection. This is not supported for remote + connections. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-ldap.html" title="21.10. LDAP Authentication">LDAP authentication</a>, which + relies on an LDAP authentication server. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-radius.html" title="21.11. RADIUS Authentication">RADIUS authentication</a>, which + relies on a RADIUS authentication server. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-cert.html" title="21.12. Certificate Authentication">Certificate authentication</a>, which + requires an SSL connection and authenticates users by checking the + SSL certificate they send. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-pam.html" title="21.13. PAM Authentication">PAM authentication</a>, which + relies on a PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) library. + </p></li><li class="listitem"><p> + <a class="link" href="auth-bsd.html" title="21.14. BSD Authentication">BSD authentication</a>, which + relies on the BSD Authentication framework (currently available + only on OpenBSD). + </p></li></ul></div><p> + </p><p> + Peer authentication is usually recommendable for local connections, + though trust authentication might be sufficient in some circumstances. + Password authentication is the easiest choice for remote connections. + All the other options require some kind of external security + infrastructure (usually an authentication server or a certificate + authority for issuing SSL certificates), or are platform-specific. + </p><p> + The following sections describe each of these authentication methods + in more detail. + </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="auth-username-maps.html" title="21.2. User Name Maps">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="client-authentication.html" title="Chapter 21. Client Authentication">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="auth-trust.html" title="21.4. Trust Authentication">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">21.2. User Name Maps </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.5 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 21.4. Trust Authentication</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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