Using Kerberos for email validations
Hi,
I am new to Kerberos, in fact I am using it for the first time.
I wamt to use the Microsoft Active Directory to validate the email address. Our application allows users to enter employee id on the form and the submit the form. But the problem occures when user enters an invalida employee id, (e.g. terminated employee etc). This causes the email to fail and leaving logs in the logger files.
There are lot of failed emails which are causing problems for the application. So we decided to write an utility in Java which can talk with Microsoft AD and return the email address for the employee id. Is there any way we can use Kerberos for this purpose?
We could authenticate the user using Kerberos but our requirements is to validate email address for the user whoes password is not known so we can not authenticate.
I read somewhere that AD Service Accounts are used for inter-application communication. As there will not be a valid user logged in on application server so we can not get user credencials.
Please help,
- PP
