Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 4, 2014 @06:45AM from the all-in-the-same-gang dept.

trazom28 writes to seek answers to a problem faced by many businesses (and, as in this case, schools): "We are looking for a solution to a single sign on to coordinate Active Directory and Google. You can sync the passwords easily enough with Google Apps Password Sync, but ideally we would like the students and staff to be able to sign in once and be done. Additionally, the Google login requires the @domain.k12.wi.us so it would have to take the AD username, pass it along and tack on the domain to log into Google.

Has anyone seen any solution for this that actually works, or is this the Holy Grail of all IT? Please hold off on any Google haters, that's a different discussion for a different forum.

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and for students that don't want to be tracked? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-04 06:53 · Score: 0, Interesting

What will you do for the students who don't want Google tracking everything they do?
You need a solution that works without a Google login, so anything that requires tying them together is a non-starter.
This isn't "google hate", it's simple realization that not everybody wants to be forced into being tracked by advertising companies.
Centrify May Offer What You're Looking For by thedbp · 2014-11-04 07:05 · Score: 3, Interesting

Ceck out http://www.centrify.com/cloud/...