Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data

or queries over the network.
19 years ago · ebf071643a
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--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
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-<!-- $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>