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README: add warning for GssapiSSLonly
It's easy for users to accidentally set GssapiSSLonly to "Off" in production, or instruct other users to turn this "Off" without understanding the consequences. Advise users that they should always use HTTPS in production.
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### GssapiSSLonly
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Forces the authentication attempt to fail if the connection is not being
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established over TLS
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established over TLS. The default is "Off", which could be helpful in a
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local development environment, but we do not recommend for production
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deployments. A passive adversary could listen to the plaintext HTTP connection
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to observe any private information in the client's request or server's
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response (for example: the full HTTP response body, or any web application
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session cookies, etc). You should only use mod_auth_gssapi with HTTPS in
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production, so we recommend that you *enable* this setting in production for
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added protection.
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- **Enable with:** GssapiSSLonly On
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- **Default:** GssapiSSLonly Off

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