e>auth-method</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
       Specifies the authentication method to use when a connection matches
       this record. The possible choices are summarized here; details
       are in <a class="xref" href="auth-methods.html" title="21.3. Authentication Methods">Section 21.3</a>.  All the options
       are lower case and treated case sensitively, so even acronyms like
       <code class="literal">ldap</code> must be specified as lower case.

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