.. index:: architecture; high availability authentication
+.. _arch_high_availability_authentication:
+
High Availability Authentication
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Storage Clusters receive data from :term:`Ceph Client`\s.
CephX
- The Ceph authentication protocol. CephX operates like Kerberos,
- but it has no single point of failure. See the :ref:`CephX
- Configuration Reference<rados-cephx-config-ref>`.
+ The Ceph authentication protocol. CephX authenticates users and
+ daemons. CephX operates like Kerberos, but it has no single
+ point of failure. See the :ref:`High-availability
+ Authentication section<arch_high_availability_authentication>`
+ of the Architecture document and the :ref:`CephX Configuration
+ Reference<rados-cephx-config-ref>`.
Client
A client is any program external to Ceph that uses a Ceph