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Authenticate clients with Kerberos

Authenticate clients with Kerberos

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Authenticate clients with Kerberos

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- [Instructor] Kerberos, named for the three-headed dog that guarded the underworld in Greek mythology, is an authentication system that allows centralized management and is often used for single sign-on applications, because it grants users a ticket that can be used to authenticate supported services, rather than requiring a password to log in all the time. As with LDAP, a correct Kerberos setup takes a lot of planning and preparation, and that's a topic for a different course. In this video, we'll set up a Kerberos server, or KDC, a key distribution center, using very basic settings so we can then use a client to connect to it, and then we'll see how to use Kerberos to allow users to log into machines. First, we'll give ourselves a host name, which in a production setup you'd want to do with your DNS servers, but here we'll just take care of that in the Hosts file, with nano etc hosts. And I'll add 127.0.0.1, and we'll call our server kdc.example.com. And then I'll install the…

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