LDAP and Kerberos, So Happy Together

Jan 13, 2009, 00:03 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Juliet Kemp)

"For security, your best option is Kerberos. Kerberos is specifically designed to handle authentication. It will not do the information lookup that LDAP does. It avoids password security problems and enables single-sign-on (a very useful feature!)."

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