From 2a0f262beff32ba86bcb58f3273214e5d0517c09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 21:16:24 +0200 Subject: Merging upstream version 16.3. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml') diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index 740ae77..7db407e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ include_dir directory entire Distinguished Name (DN) of the certificate. This option is probably best used in conjunction with a username map. The comparison is done with the DN in - RFC 2253 + RFC 2253 format. To see the DN of a client certificate in this format, do @@ -943,8 +943,8 @@ local db1,db2,@demodbs all md5 external authentication system with the database user name that the user has requested to connect as. The value all can be used as the database-username to specify - that if the system-user matches, then this user - is allowed to log in as any of the existing database users. Quoting + that if the system-username matches, then this + user is allowed to log in as any of the existing database users. Quoting all makes the keyword lose its special meaning. @@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ omicron bryanh guest1 Ident authentication, which relies on an Identification Protocol - (RFC 1413) + (RFC 1413) service on the client's machine. (On local Unix-socket connections, this is treated as peer authentication.) @@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ omicron bryanh guest1 The method scram-sha-256 performs SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication, as described in - RFC 7677. It + RFC 7677. It is a challenge-response scheme that prevents password sniffing on untrusted connections and supports storing passwords on the server in a cryptographically hashed form that is thought to be secure. @@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@ omicron bryanh guest1 GSSAPI is an industry-standard protocol for secure authentication defined in - RFC 2743. + RFC 2743. PostgreSQL supports GSSAPI for authentication, communications encryption, or both. @@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@ omicron bryanh guest1 The Identification Protocol is described in - RFC 1413. + RFC 1413. Virtually every Unix-like operating system ships with an ident server that listens on TCP port 113 by default. The basic functionality of an ident server @@ -1824,7 +1824,7 @@ omicron bryanh guest1 Set to 1 to make the connection between PostgreSQL and the LDAP server use TLS encryption. This uses the StartTLS - operation per RFC 4513. + operation per RFC 4513. See also the ldapscheme option for an alternative. @@ -1919,7 +1919,7 @@ omicron bryanh guest1 ldapurl - An RFC 4516 + An RFC 4516 LDAP URL. This is an alternative way to write some of the other LDAP options in a more compact and standard form. The format is @@ -1982,7 +1982,7 @@ ldap[s]://host[:port]/OpenLDAP as the LDAP client library, the ldapserver setting may be omitted. In that case, a list of host names and ports is looked up via - RFC 2782 DNS SRV records. + RFC 2782 DNS SRV records. The name _ldap._tcp.DOMAIN is looked up, where DOMAIN is extracted from ldapbasedn. -- cgit v1.2.3