From 58bd60995f1c7470c0542f591b303bcc586a5d5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Eisentraut
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:02:34 -0400
Subject: doc: Document default scope in LDAP URL

---
 doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index 405bf268327..26c3d1242ba 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -1529,7 +1529,8 @@ ldap://<replaceable>host</replaceable>[:<replaceable>port</replaceable>]/<replac
 </synopsis>
          <replaceable>scope</replaceable> must be one
          of <literal>base</literal>, <literal>one</literal>, <literal>sub</literal>,
-         typically the last.  <replaceable>attribute</replaceable> can
+         typically the last.  (The default is <literal>base</literal>, which
+         is normally not useful in this application.)  <replaceable>attribute</replaceable> can
          nominate a single attribute, in which case it is used as a value for
          <literal>ldapsearchattribute</literal>.  If
          <replaceable>attribute</replaceable> is empty then
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