Enterprise users can leverage Kerberos infrastructure to authenticate just once to secure access to TDV-defined resources. The duration of an authenticated session is set by the Kerberos administrator. TDV supports pass-through of the Kerberos tokens from the authenticated client through TDV to the Kerberos server and to the data sources. The TIBCO Data Virtualization Server, data sources, and clients of the TDV Server must be configured to support Kerberos token pass-through and SSO.

Kerberos must already be up and working in your environment prior to TDV Server and Studio installation. This includes the requirement that within the Kerberos installation every user, computer, and service has a Principal Name assigned to it.

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