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authorBruce Momjian2022-07-21 17:58:20 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2022-07-21 17:58:45 +0000
commitfa6c230ef23cfe5367cb883fd461580f6a42619d (patch)
treeb8fec531768c9aed355aad6b8bf13ffa45881174
parentb9654cecea6a544ad4c42a6779df77c2a5c7cd43 (diff)
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/[email protected] Backpatch-through: 10
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index b2a459fb0d..433759928b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -417,7 +417,9 @@ 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>