Re: Documentation bug for LDAP authentication

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-30T04:09:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 15:13 +0000, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> While playing with LDAP authentication, I discovered
> two documentation bugs.
> 
> First, user and password for the first step in the
> two-step authentication mode are "ldapbinddn" and
> "ldapbindpasswd", not "ldapbinduser" and "ldapbinddn".
> 
> This bug has been there since 8.4.

I've committed this part.  (It only goes back to 9.0.)

> The second one is new in 9.3 with the URL syntax:
> It is not possible to specify "user" and "password"
> in the LDAP URL.

That sounds like a bug to me.  I'll investigate.