====== Logging On ======
When you establish a connection to a TapeTrack Framework Server, you must first login to establish your identity.

===== The User-ID =====

Each TapeTrack user has a unique User-ID that is used to identify the user during login. A TapeTrack User-ID can be up to 16 characters long, is case sensitive and must only contain alphanumeric, period and hyphen characters. 

===== Credential Encryption =====

All TapeTrack data is encrypted when it is sent to the TapeTrack Framework Server, this includes the User-ID and password.

===== Native and Active Directory Passwords=====

TapeTrack supports both native and Active Directory passwords.

Native passwords are MD5 encoded and stored in the TapeTrack database.

When authenticating via Active Directory, the password sent to the TapeTrack Framework Server will then be sent to the Windows Domain Controller for authentication, for this reason the password can not be MD5 encoded.

===== Kerberos Single Sign-on =====

TapeTrack supports Kerberos Single Sign-on.