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2 | 2 |
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3 | 3 | <chapter id="client-authentication"> |
4 | 4 | <title>Client Authentication</title> |
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56 | 56 | of a set of records, one per line. Blank lines and lines beginning |
57 | 57 | with a hash character (<quote>#</quote>) are ignored. A record is |
58 | 58 | made up of a number of fields which are separated by spaces and/or |
59 | | - tabs and cannot be continued across several lines. |
| 59 | + tabs. Records cannot be continued across lines. |
60 | 60 | </para> |
61 | 61 |
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62 | 62 | <para> |
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ hostssl <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>IP-address</replaceable |
85 | 85 | <para> |
86 | 86 | This record pertains to connection attempts over TCP/IP |
87 | 87 | networks. Note that TCP/IP connections are completely disabled |
88 | | - unless the server is started with the <option>-i</option> or |
| 88 | + unless the server is started with the <option>-i</option> switch or |
89 | 89 | the equivalent configuration parameter is set. |
90 | 90 | </para> |
91 | 91 | </listitem> |
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ hostssl <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>IP-address</replaceable |
234 | 234 | of the connecting user. <productname>Postgres</productname> |
235 | 235 | then verifies whether the so identified operating system user |
236 | 236 | is allowed to connect as the database user that is requested. |
| 237 | + This is only available for TCP/IP connections. |
237 | 238 | The <replaceable>authentication option</replaceable> following |
238 | 239 | the <literal>ident</> keyword specifies the name of an |
239 | 240 | <firstterm>ident map</firstterm> that specifies which operating |
@@ -507,7 +508,7 @@ host all 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 ident omicron |
507 | 508 | <para> |
508 | 509 | The <quote>Identification Protocol</quote> is described in |
509 | 510 | <citetitle>RFC 1413</citetitle>. Virtually every Unix-like |
510 | | - operating systems ships with an ident server that listens on TCP |
| 511 | + operating system ships with an ident server that listens on TCP |
511 | 512 | port 113 by default. The basic functionality of an ident server |
512 | 513 | is to answer questions like <quote>What user initiated the |
513 | 514 | connection that goes out of your port <replaceable>X</replaceable> |
@@ -628,14 +629,14 @@ Password authentication failed for user 'joeblow' |
628 | 629 |
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629 | 630 | <para> |
630 | 631 | <ProgramListing> |
631 | | -FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'joeblow' is not in 'pg_shadow' |
| 632 | +FATAL 1: user "joeblow" does not exist |
632 | 633 | </ProgramListing> |
633 | | - This is the fancy way of saying that the user doesn't exist at all. |
| 634 | + The indicated user name was not found in pg_shadow. |
634 | 635 | </para> |
635 | 636 |
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636 | 637 | <para> |
637 | 638 | <ProgramListing> |
638 | | -FATAL 1: Database testdb does not exist in pg_database |
| 639 | +FATAL 1: Database "testdb" does not exist in the system catalog. |
639 | 640 | </ProgramListing> |
640 | 641 | The database you're trying to connect to doesn't exist. Note that |
641 | 642 | if you don't specify a database name, it defaults to the database |
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