10 WINDOWS AUTHENTICATION
Before you can interact with a Windows system, you need to complete its complex authentication process, which converts a set of credentials, such as a username and a password, into a Token object that represents the user’s identity.
Authentication is too big a topic to cover in a single chapter; therefore, I’ve split it into three parts. This chapter and the next one will provide an overview of Windows authentication, how the operating system stores a user’s configuration, and how to inspect that configuration. In the chapters that follow, we’ll discuss interactive authentication, the mechanism used to interact directly ...
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