Miscellaneous

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 ...