The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

Kerberos is a protocol for authenticating service requests between trusted hosts across an untrusted network, such as the internet. By providing a gateway between users and a network, Kerberos helps ...

Account administration in a distributed UNIX/Linux environment can become complicated and messy if done by hand. Large sites use special tools to deal with this problem. In this article, I describe ...

Heres a quick question I'm having trouble finding a straight answer too in the RK or other sources, and I don't have time to model it in the test lab before our meeting (argument) next week. If an AD ...

Server: Fully-patched 2008 R2, running Certificate Services. The /certsrv virtual directory is using (I believe) default settings. Specifically, this means it's using Windows Authentication, with NTLM ...

A security researcher recently discovered major authentication vulnerabilities in Microsoft Kerberos implementations that could enable several kinds of serious attacks. What are these authentication ...