Single Sign-On for Integrated Open-Source Apps?

Posted by Cliff on Friday November 15, 2002 @06:12AM from the single-user-mode dept.

maiden_taiwan asks: "We're constructing a free groupware application by integrating well-known open source components: apache webserver, inn news server, ircd chat, scp for file transfer, etc. Unfortunately, each app has its own incompatible concept of a 'user identity.' Apache has the htpasswd module, IRC has nicknames, scp has public keys, NetNews has the poster's email address, and so forth. Has anyone managed to integrate a similar suite of apps using a single sign-on model, where a user has a single identity that is understood and carried through all these apps?"

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Yes... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-15 06:55 · Score: 1, Funny

Someone has... They are called Microsoft and its called Passport authentication.... If you ask nice, you can probably get their specs. They are usually pretty good about sharing their code. ;-)