# Kerberos Delegation

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Let's assume that there is an end user in a Domain. There is a database server in some other DMZ. The user can access the database through a web server.&#x20;

Here, the user authenticates to the web server and the web server makes the requests to the database server.&#x20;

The web server impersonates the user. This means, the service account for web server is a trusted delegation to be able to make requests as the user.&#x20;

In the 6th step where the web server uses the user's TGS to decrypt the user's TGT inside it, to request a TGS for the database server.

This means, if the web server is compromised, any one can get the TGT of users connecting to the database.


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