How does IE handle Kerberos authentication??

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Jul 8 17:39:29 EDT 2004


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Keshav Prasad wrote:
| Hi,
|
|     I am developing a client which does kerberos authentication to a
| kerberos enabled server. Can anyone please explain how actually
| Internet Explorer handles the Kerberos authentication procedure. I
| want to know how IE comes to know about the KDC server which the
| kerberized service will be using, so that it can get the service
| tickets from this KDC. Can anyone please provide some links to
| resources which explain how this mechanism is implemented by IE..

This might help -- http://modgssapache.sourceforge.net/





cheers, jerry
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