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Special Edition Using Microsoft Active Directory
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Special Edition Using Microsoft Active Directory

by Sean Fullerton, James Hudson
March 2001
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
16h 42m
English
Que
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Authenticating to the Domain

Getting a Kerberos TGT is the first step in authenticating to the domain and using services on the network. The Kerberos KDC on the domain controller and the Kerberos security support provider (SSP) on the client collaborate to authenticate and authorize the user so he can then take advantage of services throughout the network.

Note

The process of obtaining a TGT and a session key to the computer to which you are logging on completes successfully before you ever see the desktop.

Finding the KDC

Before you can trade credentials with the KDC, you must find one on the network. The client uses the local DNS resolver to query the configured DNS server for the SRV record for a DNS server in its site. This ensures that ...

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