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authorMichael Klishin <mklishin@pivotal.io>2015-11-06 08:57:10 +0300
committerMichael Klishin <mklishin@pivotal.io>2015-11-06 08:57:10 +0300
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auth_user => authenticate_user
"auth" is an overloaded term that some use to say "authentication" and some to say "authorization". We distinguish between authn and authz in RabbitMQ for that reason. So lets be more specific in user-facing bits.
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diff --git a/docs/rabbitmqctl.1.xml b/docs/rabbitmqctl.1.xml
index be132b0bcc..e4e19c3906 100644
--- a/docs/rabbitmqctl.1.xml
+++ b/docs/rabbitmqctl.1.xml
@@ -722,20 +722,24 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><cmdsynopsis><command>auth_user</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>password</replaceable></arg></cmdsynopsis></term>
+ <term>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>authenticate_user</command> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>username</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="req"><replaceable>password</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </term>
<listitem>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>username</term>
- <listitem><para>The name of the user to log in to the broker.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>The name of the user.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>password</term>
- <listitem><para>The password of the user to log in to the broker.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>The password of the user.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para role="example-prefix">For example:</para>
- <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl auth_user tonyg verifyit</screen>
+ <screen role="example">rabbitmqctl verify_password tonyg verifyit</screen>
<para role="example">
This command instructs the RabbitMQ broker to authenticate the
user named <command>tonyg</command> with password