Authentication Services

All CSG-maintained systems in the Department use the Kerberos network authentication infrastructure deployed by the Department and the central College computing services, ICT, that allows you to use the same passphrase to access all standard university services, such as email, remote login and web services.

Kerberos also enables the ability to use ticket-based automatic single sign-on across services that have been extended to support it. Departmental services that support ticket-based authentication include:

• Remote login via Secure Shell (SSH);
• Departmental web pages accessed over HTTPS;
• Secure mail access via IMAP;
• Network filesystem access via Windows Networking (SMB/CIFS)