document GSSAPI authentication

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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
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Note that password authentication can be used in conjunction with certificate
authentication.
@subheading GSSAPI authentication
ocserv will take advantage of the MIT Kerberos project GSSAPI libraries, and
allow authentication using any method GSSAPI supports. That is, mainly, Kerberos
authentication. That is often more useful to be combined with PAM or other
password authentication methods so that a fallback mechanism can be used when
GSSAPI fails (e.g., when the user doesn't already have a Kerberos ticket). The
GSSAPI authentication is implemented using SPNEGO.
@subheading Public key (certificate) authentication
Public key authentication allows the user to be authenticated
by the possession of the private key that corresponds to a known