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# PostgreSQL Ident Authentication Maps
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# ====================================
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# PostgreSQL User Name Maps
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# =========================
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#
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# Refer to the PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide, chapter "Client
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# Authentication" for a complete description. A short synopsis
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# follows.
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# Authentication" for a complete description. A short synopsis follows.
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#
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# This file controls PostgreSQL username mapping. It maps
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# external user names to their corresponding
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# PG-USERNAME.
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# If SYSTEM-USERNAME starts with a slash (/), it will be treated as
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# a regular expression. Up to one capture is allowed, and this will
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# be replaced in PG-USERNAME for backslash-one (\1) if present.
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# a regular expression. Optionally this can contain a capture (a
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# parenthesized subexpression). The substring matching the capture
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# will be substituted for \1 (backslash-one) if present in PG-USERNAME.
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#
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# Multiple maps may be specified in this file and used # by pg_hba.conf.
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# Multiple maps may be specified in this file and used by pg_hba.conf.
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#
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# No map names are defined in the default configuration. If all system
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# user names and PostgreSQL user names are the same, you don't need
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# anything in this file.
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#
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# This file is read on server startup and when the postmaster receives
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# a SIGHUP signal. If you edit the file on a running system, you have
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# Put your actual configuration here
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# ----------------------------------
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#
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# No map names are defined in the default configuration. If all system
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# user names and PostgreSQL user names are the same, you don't need
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# this file.
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# MAPNAME SYSTEM-USERNAME PG-USERNAME

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