The double-hop problem
The double-hop problem describes a scenario in PowerShell where remoting is used to connect to a host and the remote host tries to connect to another resource. In this scenario, the second connection, the second hop, fails because authentication cannot be implicitly passed.
Over the years, there have been numerous articles that discuss this problem. Ashley McGlone published a blog post in 2016 that describes the problem and the possible solutions:
This section briefly explores using CredSSP, as well as how to pass explicit credentials to a remote system. Neither of these options is considered secure, but they require the least amount of work to implement.
These two options are useful in the following situations:
- The remote endpoint is trusted and has not been compromised
- Critical authentication tokens can be extracted...
