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Overcoming Active Directory Woes with Plain Text Caches and Replacing Passwords

Workshop: HPC Systems Professionals Workshop (HPCSYSPROS23)

Authors: Jason St John and Alex Younts (Guardant Health)

Abstract: Reliable authentication is a key component of all HPC systems. This paper discusses an approach that bypasses systemic authentication problems experienced by the authors to provide a simple and reliable manner of managing service accounts and user groups for HPC centers using plain text caches and alternatives to passwords.

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