Apple Training Series: Mac OS X System Administration Reference, Volume 1

Lesson 8. Providing Single Sign-on Authentication

Time

This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

Goals

Learn to identify the files used by the Kerberos service running on a Mac OS X server Use the kdb5_util command to export and import data to and from the KDC database on a Mac OS X server Use kadmin.local command-line utilities to manage Kerberos running on a Mac OS X server computer Use klist to determine what encryption method was used to generate keytab files on a Mac OS X server Use Workgroup Manager to configure password policies enforced by Password Server running on a Mac OS X server

This lesson focuses on Mac OS X Server’s single sign-on (SSO) architecture with an eye toward authentication—the process of proving ...