Showing posts with label authentication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label authentication. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2016

How Windows Logon works

This post will give you a brief idea about how interactive logon works in Windows. Logon process is the first step in user authentication and authorisation. Following are the main components of interactive logon architecture.

-Winlogon
-GINA DLL (Graphical Identification and Authentication Dynamic Link Library)
-LSA (Local Security Authority)
-Authentication packages (NTLM and Kerberos)

Local logon and domain logon process are explained below.

Local logon:



Domain logon:




Note: Diagrams used are from technet article