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The Ticket-Granting Ticket
Kerberos Realms
The Kerberos Database
Kerberos Tickets
Network Services and Their Client Programs
How Kerberos Works
Kerberos was created by MIT
The Internet is an insecure place.
What is Kerberos?
Kerberos
Application configuration
The default configuration file
How to set configuration options
Kerberos mechanisms
Shared secrets mechanisms
write your own
sasldb
pam
kerberos_v4
shadow
passwd
The PLAIN mechanism and sasl_checkpass() call
How SASL works
Realms
Linux Authentication Systems
Authentication and authorization identifiers
What SASL is
SASL
What about X.500?
How does LDAP work?
How is the information protected from unauthorized access?
How is the information accessed?
How is the information referenced?
How is the information arranged?
Linux Authentication Systems
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What kind of information can be stored in the directory?
Heimdal
What is LDAP?
Why Use SSH?
What is a directory service?
What is SSH?
LDAP
SSH
Basic PAM modules
The nsswitch.conf File
Example configuration file entries
NIS+, keylogin, login and PAM
PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules
NIS+ Requirements
How User Information is Stored on Your System
PAM
Shadow Passwords with NIS
The nsswitch.conf File
NIS Maps
ypbind
ypserv
The RPC Portmapper
NIS Requirements
What are some terminology differences between NIS and NIS+?
How NIS+ works
How NIS works
What are NIS and NIS+?
NIS NIS+
Definitions
The User/Kerberos Interaction
The Keytab File
Network Services and the Master Database
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In this document I will discuss the various user authentication systems, and how they relate to system security.
2005-05-04
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