A while back we decided to use a Kerberos authentication system at work. This is not only a superior approach to directly storing passwords in your users table (for various reasons I won't go into here), but it's also one way to implement single signon within your domain ( Read more... )

These are the notes I've gathered together for setting up a local kerberos environment. They're mostly here for me to refer to back to, but maybe they'll help you, too. Feel free to add comments ( Read more... )

We've been using Kerberos as part of our single signon solution at $WORK. We also use PostgreSQL for most of our database needs. Well, for the Rails apps, anyway ( Read more... )