From ebf071643a0346474de269d013941a8a098fe8b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:39:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data or queries over the network. --- doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml index f418332a39..4b7c2c4709 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Client Authentication @@ -653,6 +653,9 @@ local db1,db2,@demodbs all md5 MIT Kerberos page can be good starting points for exploration. Several sources for Kerberos distributions exist. + Kerberos provides secure authentication but + does not encrypt queries or data passed over the network; for that + use SSL.