<sect1 id="auth-methods">
<title>Authentication Methods</title>
<para>
- The following subsections describe the authentication methods in more detail.
+ The following sections describe the authentication methods in more detail.
</para>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-trust">
+ <sect1 id="auth-trust">
<title>Trust Authentication</title>
<para>
for any TCP/IP connections other than those from <systemitem>localhost</systemitem> (127.0.0.1).
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-password">
+ <sect1 id="auth-password">
<title>Password Authentication</title>
<indexterm>
and change the authentication method specifications
in <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> to <literal>scram-sha-256</literal>.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="gssapi-auth">
+ <sect1 id="gssapi-auth">
<title>GSSAPI Authentication</title>
<indexterm zone="gssapi-auth">
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="sspi-auth">
+ <sect1 id="sspi-auth">
<title>SSPI Authentication</title>
<indexterm zone="sspi-auth">
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-ident">
+ <sect1 id="auth-ident">
<title>Ident Authentication</title>
<indexterm>
since <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> does not have any way to decrypt the
returned string to determine the actual user name.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-peer">
+ <sect1 id="auth-peer">
<title>Peer Authentication</title>
<indexterm>
and <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem>.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-ldap">
+ <sect1 id="auth-ldap">
<title>LDAP Authentication</title>
<indexterm zone="auth-ldap">
</para>
</tip>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-radius">
+ <sect1 id="auth-radius">
<title>RADIUS Authentication</title>
<indexterm zone="auth-radius">
</variablelist>
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-cert">
+ <sect1 id="auth-cert">
<title>Certificate Authentication</title>
<indexterm zone="auth-cert">
is a check that the <literal>cn</literal> attribute matches the database
user name.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-pam">
+ <sect1 id="auth-pam">
<title>PAM Authentication</title>
<indexterm zone="auth-pam">
LDAP or other authentication methods.
</para>
</note>
- </sect2>
+ </sect1>
- <sect2 id="auth-bsd">
+ <sect1 id="auth-bsd">
<title>BSD Authentication</title>
<indexterm zone="auth-bsd">
exists by default on OpenBSD systems.
</para>
</note>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
+ </sect1>
<sect1 id="client-authentication-problems">
<title>Authentication Problems</title>