International Business Machines Corporation

Rengan Sundararaman

David L Leigh

Michael J McMahon

Hyen-Vui Chung

Derek Wan Ho

An authentication system and method for allowing an administrator to host a plurality of service principal names (SPNs) over a common network port of a backend server. The authentication system includes a client computer, a backend server, and a service principal name (SPN) apparatus. The client computer sends an authentication request to the backend server. The backend server performs an authentication procedure in response to a reception of the authentication request from the client computer. The SPN apparatus configures a plurality of service SPNs for the web service application over the common network port.

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Rengan Sundararaman