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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2006-11-17 23:25:17 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2006-11-17 23:25:17 +0000 |
commit | fa3d622cb0ed7d101ea041733614661e7a4aa1ec (patch) | |
tree | d67810714be5d7faea0f32530e5077b6fdf47522 | |
parent | 4f335a3d7fda4b4a0efd4568ac61d036098d951a (diff) |
Clarify description of CIDR-address column of pg_hba.conf, to discourage
people from trying notations like '10.6/16', which is accepted but does
not mean what you probably think. Per example from Paul Forgey.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index a77d89db0e5..f418332a395 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.94 2006/10/23 18:10:30 petere Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.95 2006/11/17 23:25:17 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="client-authentication"> <title>Client Authentication</title> @@ -226,11 +226,12 @@ hostnossl <replaceable>database</replaceable> <replaceable>user</replaceable> </para> <para> - A typical <replaceable>CIDR-address</replaceable> is + Typical examples of a <replaceable>CIDR-address</replaceable> are <literal>172.20.143.89/32</literal> for a single host, or - <literal>172.20.143.0/24</literal> for a network. + <literal>172.20.143.0/24</literal> for a small network, or + <literal>10.6.0.0/16</literal> for a larger one. To specify a single host, use a CIDR mask of 32 for IPv4 or - 128 for IPv6. + 128 for IPv6. In a network address, do not omit trailing zeroes. </para> <para> |