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Active Directory Cookbook, 4th Edition
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Active Directory Cookbook, 4th Edition

by Brian Svidergol, Robbie Allen
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
860 pages
21h 28m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 14. Security and Authentication

Introduction

The default Windows 2000 installation of Active Directory was not as secure as it could have been out of the box. It allowed anonymous queries to be executed, which could take up valuable processing resources, and it did not place any requirements on encrypting or signing traffic between clients and domain controllers. As a result, usernames, passwords, and search results could be sent over the network in clear text. Fortunately, beginning with Windows Server 2003, things tightened up significantly. LDAP traffic is signed by default, and anonymous queries are disabled by default. Additionally, Transport Layer Security (TLS), the more flexible cousin of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), is supported, allowing for end-to-end encryption of traffic between domain controllers and clients.

Active Directory’s ACL model provides ultimate flexibility for securing objects throughout a forest; you can restrict access down to the attribute level if you need to. With this flexibility comes increased complexity. An object’s ACL is initially generated from the default ACL for the object’s class, inherited permissions, and permissions directly applied on the object.

An ACL is a collection of ACEs, which defines the permission and properties that a security principal can use on the object to which the ACL is applied. Defining these entries and populating the ACL is the foundation of Active Directory security and delegation.

In this chapter, we will explore ...

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