Kerberos

Kerberos is an authentication protocol that enables mutual authentication of applications in a network by means of key cryptography. PPM is able to apply the user's login data for the operating system (for example, MS Windows) to automatically log the user in to PPM in the Web browser.

Kerberos parameters

Use the following entries in central user administration to configure Kerberos access.

By default, PPM uses the MS Windows® native SSPI-API to perform a Kerberos authentication. In case that the usage of the SSPI-API causes incompatibilities you can switch the Kerberos authentication to the Java®-internal GSS-API.

To use the Java®-internal GSS-API you can edit the Kerberos_settings.properties file and set the DISABLE_NATIVE_PROVIDERS= parameter to true.

The Kerberos_settings.properties file is located in the <PPM installation>\server\bin\work\data_ppm\config folder.