| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Paul Förster <paul(dot)foerster(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: LDAP(s) doc misleading |
| Date: | 2021-01-07 10:04:17 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevEycGRdLcVmawrbYbc2iJ9HefMXa4VCE3mXPrEdK13Z-gg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:36 AM Paul Förster <paul(dot)foerster(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I found what I believe to be misleading in the LDAP documentation:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-ldap.html
>
> It says:
> "ldapscheme
> Set to ldaps to use LDAPS."...
>
> IMHO, it should say:
> "ldapscheme
> Set to ldapscheme to use LDAPS (ldapscheme=ldaps)."...
No, I think this is correct.
"Set to ldaps to use ldaps" means you set it to the value "ldaps" in
order to use ldaps.
I think you missed the "to" in the sentence -- without that one, your
reading of it would make more sense. See also the following parameter,
ldaptls, which uses similar language.
--
Magnus Hagander
Me: https://www.hagander.net/
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