The KDC for a domain is located on a domain controller, as is the Active Directory for the domain. Both services are started automatically by the domain controller’s Local Security Authority (LSA) and run as part of the LSA’s process. Neither service …
Read more →This service, running on domain controllers, enables users to log on to the network using the Kerberos authentication protocol. If this service is stopped, users will be unable to log on to the network. If this service is disabled, any …
Read more →In Kerberos authentication, a Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) is a user authentication token issued by the Key Distribution Center (KDC) to be used to request from the Ticket Granting Service (TGS) access tokens for specific resources/systems joined to the domain. …
Read more →As the Kerberos protocol was originally designed, a master key for a user was derived from a password provided by the user. When a user logged on, the Kerberos client on the user’s workstation accepted the password from the user and converted …
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