Re: Description of Authentication Methods Supported for Map is Misleading

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 10:13 AM PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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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