Kerberos V5 Authentication for a Telnet Session

[Jeffrey Altman]

Neither Microsoft's Telnet Server nor their Telnet client support
Kerberos authentication.  In order to use Kerberos 5 authentication
on Windows you will need to find third party products that provide
this functionality.

Jeffrey Altman


sarshah20 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Here is what i want to do. I want to establish a telnet connection from
> a client to a server. The authentication mechanism that i want to use
> for telnet connection is kerberos v5.
> 
> What I Have Done So Far:
> I have setup two virtual machines (both windows 2003 server enterprise
> edition) on VMWare. I have made one of them a server (a domain
> controller) and other a client. On the server, i
> have installed Active Directory. On the server i registered a new user
> in active directory. Using this user i can log in to the domain from
> clients machine. Now, from the clients machine, when i try to connect
> to the server using the windows builtin telnet client, the login
> attempt fails. The message that is displayed on the console is "Failure
> in initializing the telnet session. Shell process may not have been
> launched.". In the server event viewer, there is an error saying "Error
> in creating CMD proces. System Error: Access is denied.". After
> searching the internet, i found out a couple of proposed solutions for
> the first error. One of them was for win xp 64 bit edition. Tried it
> but no avail. The 2nd
> one said to make sure that Secondary Logon service is running. Tried
> that too but no affect at all. If i unset NTLM auth from the client
> side then it simply asks me to enter user name and password. Obviously
> this is not what i want. I want the user to be authenticated by means
> of kerberos v5 protocol. So now i am wondering how can i make kerberos
> v5 authentication to work with telnet. Any help would be highly
> appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> sarshah
> 

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