> Kerberos just doesn't solve the same problem: it starts by giving your username and password to a fully trusted client. Not really. In practice, Kerberos mea

> Kerberos just doesn't solve the same problem: it starts by giving your username and password to a fully trusted client. Not really. In practice, Kerberos means just loading the gssapi or sspi library, essentially using the user's login to already have the ticket-granting-ticket generated and usable for the subsequent tickets. As the client application, I never see the user's password; it's all handled for me by the OS.