Explained: Kerberos

It is 9 a.m. on a Monday. You type your password once to log into your work laptop. Then the day just happens: the shared drive opens, the intranet loads, Outlook connects, you print to the machine down the hall, you SSH into a build server. Not one of those systems asked for your password. Somehow, they all know who you are. That quiet magic is, in most corporate networks, Kerberos . It has been running underneath Windows Active Directory since 2… Read More