Miscellaneous
Understand the advanced features of Kerberos beyond the basics including cross-realm authentication which allows users to authenticate across different realms and the use of multiple Key Distribution Centers (KDCs) to ensure system availability and eliminate single points of failure. Learn how master and slave KDCs operate to keep authentication services reliable and secure.
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Let’s briefly discuss the various capabilities and features of Kerberos that are important, but beyond the scope of an introductory text on the subject.
Cross-realm authentication
Kerberos allows users in one realm to authenticate themselves to entities in a different realm. Cross-realm trust describes situations when clients (typically users) of one realm use Kerberos to authenticate to services (e.g., server processes) that belong to another realm. This feature is ...