AWS AmazonRDS: Editorial rewording of IAM DB auth token-size tip
Summary
Replaces "e.g., ODBC" with "for example, ODBC" in the guidance about not truncating IAM database authentication tokens.
Security assessment
The underlying guidance (drivers must not truncate the IAM auth token, which would break authentication) is unchanged; only the Latin abbreviation was rewritten, so this is a style-only edit with no new security content.
Evidence
+ * The size of an IAM database authentication token depends on many things including the number of IAM tags, IAM service policies, ARN lengths, as well as other IAM and database properties. The minimum size of this token is generally about 1 KB but can be larger. Since this token is used as the password in the connection string to the database using IAM authentication, you should ensure that your database driver (for example, ODBC) and/or any tools do not limit or otherwise truncate this token due to its size. A truncated token will cause the authentication validation done by the database and IAM to fail.
Diff
diff --git a/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.md b/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.md index 3f3093b96..c528117e7 100644 --- a//AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.md +++ b//AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.md @@ -103 +103 @@ We recommend the following when using IAM database authentication: - * The size of an IAM database authentication token depends on many things including the number of IAM tags, IAM service policies, ARN lengths, as well as other IAM and database properties. The minimum size of this token is generally about 1 KB but can be larger. Since this token is used as the password in the connection string to the database using IAM authentication, you should ensure that your database driver (e.g., ODBC) and/or any tools do not limit or otherwise truncate this token due to its size. A truncated token will cause the authentication validation done by the database and IAM to fail. + * The size of an IAM database authentication token depends on many things including the number of IAM tags, IAM service policies, ARN lengths, as well as other IAM and database properties. The minimum size of this token is generally about 1 KB but can be larger. Since this token is used as the password in the connection string to the database using IAM authentication, you should ensure that your database driver (for example, ODBC) and/or any tools do not limit or otherwise truncate this token due to its size. A truncated token will cause the authentication validation done by the database and IAM to fail.