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Commit ebf07164 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian
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Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data

or queries over the network.
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<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>
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