From eceb05b0b9e619352ea2826bba0d4393afe2c8be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:01:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Mention that PAM requires the user already exist in the
database, per Dick Davies.
---
doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index 18269067f84..3f2bdce20fa 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.76 2005/04/22 04:18:58 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.77 2005/04/26 03:01:09 momjian Exp $
-->
<chapter id="client-authentication">
@@ -883,8 +883,10 @@ omicron bryanh guest1
default PAM service name is <literal>postgresql</literal>. You can
optionally supply your own service name after the <literal>pam</>
key word in the file <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename>.
- For more information about PAM, please read the
- <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/">
+ PAM is used only to validate username/password pairs.
+ The user must already exist in the database before PAM
+ can be used for authentication. For more information about
+ PAM, please read the <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/">
<productname>Linux-PAM</> Page</ulink>
and the <ulink url="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/">
<systemitem class="osname">Solaris</> PAM Page</ulink>.
--
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