tags : Security
Prior readings
Intro
- Kerberos is a protocol used to provide authentication to network services
- Kerberos is typically just authentication.
- Kerberos separates users, services and hosts
- Allows pre-authentication and SSO (single sign on)
- If you worked on a windows environment before and wonder why you never have to type in your password to access a share? Kerberos is the answer. (It replaced NTLM)
- Many Directory Services use it for Auth needs