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Interoperability with Windows 2000
Understanding the Terminology
Chapter 454
systems and the Microsoft implementation uses a DNS lookup to resolve
host names. But both implementations are written to RFC 1510 (The
Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)) and RFC 1964 (The
Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism), and hence they can
interoperate.
Table 4-1 summarizes analogous terminology in the Kerberos server and
Windows 2000 Kerberos implementations.
Table 4-1 Table of Analogous Terms
Kerberos Server Windows 2000
Realm Domain
Interrealm Interdomain
Crossdomain
Crossrealm
Secret key Longterm key
Shared principal key
Credentials cache Secure cache
Principal database Active directory
Service ticket Session ticket
Security server Domain controller
Principal names Account names