On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 10:13 AM PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.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. -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
