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authorMagnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>2009-05-11 09:11:41 +0000
committerMagnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>2009-05-11 09:11:41 +0000
commite54ec9231c3c7bdbfa1dfae7750b22d17afc2fc4 (patch)
tree4f0e764eb16f6564630c43b0355697244ea48a0d
parentf3b507c8c7ac585981b800a489e6101c6ac317be (diff)
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Move crypt auth comment to proper section.
Add some details about the name=value format of auth options.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml35
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
index 78778dedd36..7dfc0692514 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml,v 1.2 2009/05/11 09:00:10 mha Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml,v 1.3 2009/05/11 09:11:41 mha Exp $ -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-4">
@@ -233,19 +233,6 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove support for the (insecure) <literal>crypt</> authentication method
- (Magnus)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This effectively obsoletes pre-<productname>PostgreSQL</> 7.2 client
- libraries, as there is no longer any non-plaintext password method that
- they can use.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
Remove <varname>krb_realm</> and <varname>krb_server_hostname</>;
these are now set in <filename>pg_hba.conf</> instead (Magnus)
</para>
@@ -726,6 +713,19 @@
<listitem>
<para>
+ Remove support for the (insecure) <literal>crypt</> authentication method
+ (Magnus)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This effectively obsoletes pre-<productname>PostgreSQL</> 7.2 client
+ libraries, as there is no longer any non-plaintext password method that
+ they can use.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
Support regular expressions in <filename>pg_ident.conf</>
(Magnus)
</para>
@@ -793,6 +793,13 @@
Change all authentication options to use <literal>name=value</>
syntax (Magnus)
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ This makes incompatible changes to the <literal>ldap</>,
+ <literal>pam</> and <literal>ident</> authentication methods. All
+ <filename>pg_hba.conf</> entries with these methods need to be
+ rewritten using the new format.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>