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3 | 3 | <chapter id="client-authentication"> |
4 | 4 | <title>Client Authentication</title> |
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77 | 77 | a set of records, one per line. Blank lines are ignored, as is any |
78 | 78 | text after the <literal>#</literal> comment character. A record is made |
79 | 79 | up of a number of fields which are separated by spaces and/or tabs. |
80 | | - Fields can contain white space if the field value is quoted. Records |
81 | | - cannot be continued across lines. |
| 80 | + Fields can contain white space if the field value is quoted. |
| 81 | + Quoting one of the keywords in database or username field (e.g "all" |
| 82 | + or "replication") makes the name lose its special character, and just |
| 83 | + match a database or username with that name. Records cannot be |
| 84 | + continued across lines. |
82 | 85 | </para> |
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84 | 87 | <para> |
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