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Authentication Process
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Authentication Process
The Kerberos server grants tickets to your user principal to access
secured network services. You must log on to the server by providing
your user name and password. When the server authenticates you, it
returns a set of initial credentials for you, including a TGT and a session
key.
The Kerberos server grants a service ticket for a specific service principal
that can be associated with one or more Kerberos-secured services on the
same system. A client application uses your service ticket to authenticate
you to a Kerberos-secured network service. The secured client
application automatically handles the transactions with the server and
the secured application server. Service tickets and associated session
keys are generally cached in your user credentials cache along with the
TGT of the user.