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How to use Kerberos Authentication in a Mixed (Windows and UNIX) Environment
The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena that involved integrating the computers on the MIT campus, which ran on different operating systems, in a network that offered single sign-on (SSO). At that time, most UNIX systems allowed users to access their resources as long as they had an account name and password. Microsoft’s first real networking operating system was NT (Windows for Workgroups supported file and printer sharing but not network logon). It used Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) and later a stronger version, MS-CHAP.Kerberos is the protocol of choice for mixed network environments. This article explains how to use Kerberos authentication in these mixed environments. (continue at source)