Kerberos-Enabled Server Packages
While PAM is a great solution for local login on the system console, the real advantages to using Kerberos are only realized if client/server applications that users interact with are configured for native Kerberos support.
Our users now have Kerberos tickets upon login. The next step is to start adding Kerberos support to the application servers that users access. We want users to enjoy the benefits of a fully-Kerberized environment as much as possible, so I’ll focus on enabling native Kerberos support in as many packages that support it, but fall back to the single-login capability provided by other packages that do not have built-in Kerberos support.
We already saw an example of a network protocol with native Kerberos support back in Chapter 4, when we configured the Kerberos telnet server to test our new Kerberos implementation. We’re going to take that a step further in this section and examine how to add Kerberos support to other popular network protocols.
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