Chapter 27  Kerberos Authentication

Table of Contents

27.1  Kerio MailServer on Windows
27.2  Kerio MailServer on Linux
27.3  Kerio MailServer on Mac OS X
27.4  Starting Open Directory and Kerberos settings

This chapter provides simple and well-organized guidelines to configuration of user authentication at Kerberos.

Kerberos is a client-to-server system which enables authentication and authorization of users to increase security while using network resources. Kerberos is described by IETF RFC 4120.

Kerio MailServer includes support for Kerberos V5.

The following logs may be helpful while solving configuration issues:



[7] The Kerberos Heimdal's client is also included in the Linux installation packages of Kerio MailServer. It is, however, not important which version is used on the server (Key Distribution Center) and which is used at the client (Kerio MailServer in this case) since the protocol is the same and no problems should occur in the cooperation of the server and the client side.