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Update PAM documentation, per Alvaro.

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Bruce Momjian 2005-04-27 20:09:50 +00:00
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$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.77 2005/04/26 03:01:09 momjian Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.78 2005/04/27 20:09:50 momjian Exp $
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<chapter id="client-authentication">
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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>.
PAM is used only to validate username/password pairs.
The user must already exist in the database before PAM
PAM is used only to validate username/password pairs,
therefore 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>