From ea63bf6ac83af97f36e5653fa7d3269958bd067a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:15:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs mentioning PAM doesn't work reading /etc/passwd because of non-root. Dhanaraj M --- doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index 4e874b7272..20eb31fbfc 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Client Authentication @@ -1079,11 +1079,10 @@ ldap[s]://servername[:port]/ - PAM does work authenticating against Unix system authentication - because the postgres server is started by a non-root user. In order - to enable this functionality, the root user must provide additional - permissions to the postgres user (for reading - /etc/shadow). + If PAM is set up to read /etc/shadow, authentication + will fail because the PostgreSQL server is started by a non-root + user. However, this is not an issue with LDAP or other authentication + methods.