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Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual

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CHAPTER 11<br />

Kerberos<br />

This chapter describes how to use Kerberos with <strong>Lustre</strong> and includes the following<br />

sections:<br />

■ What is Kerberos?<br />

■ <strong>Lustre</strong> Setup with Kerberos<br />

11.1 What is Kerberos?<br />

Kerberos is a mechanism for authenticating all entities (such as users and services)<br />

on an “unsafe” network. Users and services, known as "principals", share a secret<br />

password (or key) with the Kerberos server. This key enables principals to verify that<br />

messages from the Kerberos server are authentic. By trusting the Kerberos server,<br />

users and services can authenticate one another.<br />

Caution – Kerberos is a <strong>Lustre</strong> 2.0 feature that is not available in earlier versions of<br />

<strong>Lustre</strong>.<br />

11-1

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