How To Connect to SQL Server On-Premise/Virtual Machine from Linux using Kerberos Authentication


 

Hi! 

It is known that SQL Server can be accessed with many different authentication methods. We often recommend the use of Integrated Security using Kerberos mainly because it allows delegated authentication, besides being an efficient method compared to others such as NTLM, for example.

 

On today’s post we will be following the steps to help you configuring Kerberos on Linux and test it by connecting to a SQL Server instance found On-Premise/Virtual Machine .

 

The steps will be covered in the following sections:

 

 Joining the Linux Server to the Windows Domain Setting Kerberos on Linux Testing