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* Description of Authentication Methods Supported for Map is Misleading
@ 2019-12-05 20:43 PG Doc comments form <[email protected]>
  2019-12-06 13:16 ` Re: Description of Authentication Methods Supported for Map is Misleading Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
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From: PG Doc comments form @ 2019-12-05 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]; +Cc: [email protected]

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
Description:

"This option is supported for all authentication methods that receive
external user names."

More properly, the authentication methods supported are:  ident, peer,
gassapi, sspi, and cert.  

LDAP is not supported and attempting to use map with LDAP provides the
following error: 
'authentication option ""map"" is only valid for authentication methods
ident, peer, gssapi, sspi, and cert'


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* Re: Description of Authentication Methods Supported for Map is Misleading
  2019-12-05 20:43 Description of Authentication Methods Supported for Map is Misleading PG Doc comments form <[email protected]>
@ 2019-12-06 13:16 ` Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
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From: Magnus Hagander @ 2019-12-06 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]; Pg Docs <[email protected]>

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 10:13 AM PG Doc comments form <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/auth-pg-hba-conf.html
> Description:
>
> "This option is supported for all authentication methods that receive
> external user names."
>
> More properly, the authentication methods supported are:  ident, peer,
> gassapi, sspi, and cert.
>
> LDAP is not supported and attempting to use map with LDAP provides the
> following error:
> 'authentication option ""map"" is only valid for authentication methods
> ident, peer, gssapi, sspi, and cert'
>

This is correct. LDAP authentication does not receive external usernames.
It uses an external service to validate the password, but it gets the
username from the client.

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