Lesson 17. Secure Authentication
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This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete. |
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Understand the concepts behind authentication Use Mac OS X Server to provide SASL-based encryption Understand the role Kerberos plays in Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server |
Authentication is the process of proving your identity. This is a concept that is of great interest to anyone in charge of a server or a network providing services like Apple File Protocol (AFP) or email. Historically, this meant entering separate user IDs and passwords for every service you needed to use (and sometimes every server), even if you entered the same user ID and password each time. However, by integrating technologies such as single sign-on (SSO) via Kerberos, ...
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