Nutanix, Inc.
WINDOWS SINGLE SIGN-ON MECHANISM

Abstract:

An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor with programmed instructions to receive, from a user device and via a network, encrypted credentials for logging on a user associated with the user device to a virtual machine. The processor is coupled to the virtual machine via a hypervisor. The processor has programmed instructions to decrypt the credentials, send, to an operating system of the virtual machine, the decrypted credentials, and cause the operating system to log the user on to the virtual machine.