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.

The KDC Kerberos v5 Server must already be installed and running in your environment before you install TDV Server and Studio. You then configure the Kerberos system to use with TDV, establishing a security context in which Kerberos and the TDV identify each other.