The infrastructure can be used by applications for public directory service, lookups, authorization, and authentication. Well-defined access control policies will govern customer and application access to CalNet.
LDAP protocol offers a low level authentication service.
The current system uses Kerberos for highest available security protocol. Each application interface to the CalNet system will be determined by well-defined policies for technical and security level requirements. A UC Berkeley employee ID number or student ID number is used as an identifier for these initialization steps . Subsequent access to the CalNet system or CalNet enabled applications will be by using the CalNet ID and passphrase.