PAM Kerberos Release Note, HP 9000 Networking

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PAM Kerberos Release Note
Benefits
Benefits
To support single sign-on between HP-UX and Microsoft Windows 2000 or other UNIX
systems running MIT Kerberos, HP-UX provides PAM Kerberos that integrates HP-UX login
with any Kerberos 5 Server, such as Microsoft Windows 2000 Key Distribution Center (KDC)
and MIT KDC.
PAM Kerberos authenticates entities without sending plain text password over the network.
The Kerberos protocol uses strong cryptography (DES) so that a client can proveits identity to
a server (and vice versa) across an insecure network connection, and assure privacy and data
integrity in the communications.