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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml4
-rw-r--r--src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample17
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index 23d90e9d4fa..445b8f4c356 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.58 2003/09/12 22:17:22 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.59 2003/09/13 16:43:38 momjian Exp $
-->
<chapter id="client-authentication">
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ hostnossl <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>user</replaceable>
<para>
This record matches connection attempts using Unix-domain
sockets. Without a record of this type, Unix-domain socket
- connections are disallowed
+ connections are disallowed.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample b/src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample
index 946e573ddc9..f4f002b7079 100644
--- a/src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample
+++ b/src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample
@@ -7,15 +7,20 @@
#
# This file controls: which hosts are allowed to connect, how clients
# are authenticated, which PostgreSQL user names they can use, which
-# databases they can access. Records take one of five forms:
+# databases they can access. Records take one of seven forms:
#
-# local DATABASE USER METHOD [OPTION]
-# host DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
-# hostssl DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
-# host DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
-# hostssl DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
+# local DATABASE USER METHOD [OPTION]
+# host DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
+# hostssl DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
+# hostnossl DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
+# host DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
+# hostssl DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
+# hostnossl DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK METHOD [OPTION]
#
# (The uppercase quantities should be replaced by actual values.)
+# The first field is the connection type: "local" is a Unix-domain socket,
+# "host" is either a plain or SSL-encrypted TCP/IP socket, "hostssl" is an
+# SSL-encrypted TCP/IP socket, and "hostnossl" is a plain TCP/IP socket.
# DATABASE can be "all", "sameuser", "samegroup", a database name (or
# a comma-separated list thereof), or a file name prefixed with "@".
# USER can be "all", an actual user name or a group name prefixed with