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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2006-11-23 05:39:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2006-11-23 05:39:17 +0000 |
| commit | ebf071643a0346474de269d013941a8a098fe8b7 (patch) | |
| tree | ce643ba07536cfe62f7cb14f43bae64b0665ce75 | |
| parent | 4ed6f6d47969e09ed4585efbc65e8aecd67e4602 (diff) | |
Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data
or queries over the network.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index f418332a395..4b7c2c47093 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.95 2006/11/17 23:25:17 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml,v 1.96 2006/11/23 05:39:17 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="client-authentication"> <title>Client Authentication</title> @@ -653,6 +653,9 @@ local db1,db2,@demodbs all md5 <ulink url="http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/">MIT Kerberos page</ulink> can be good starting points for exploration. Several sources for <productname>Kerberos</> distributions exist. + <productname>Kerberos</productname> provides secure authentication but + does not encrypt queries or data passed over the network; for that + use <acronym>SSL</acronym>. </para> <para> |