Dave, I know I'm nitpicking - but since this bothers me on a weekly basis I thought I'd mention: in most cases LDAP-enabling an app does not constitute "single sign-on". I spend lots of time trying to explain the difference between a "federated logon" - e.g. using LDAP to authenticate users against a centralized directory, and "single sign-on", where users are separately authenticated by a centralized authority and apps never even so much as see a password (or present a login form). Web-based SSO like Yale's CAS or its commercial alternatives would be installed in a lot more places if people knew the how(s) + why(s).
As a side note, those large enterprises will consider a platform that doesn't do federated logon or SSO if there's enough dog+pony shows to convince execs that you won't need it and maintaining "one more userbase" is lots of fun :) Dave Ross http://www.coldspringframework.org >> Does anyone use CFLDAP? Its one of those obscure things that >> 99% of people don't seem to use :-) > >The remaining 1% tend to be very large enterprises spending lots of money to >enable single sign-on functionality, and will not even consider a platform >for use if you can't talk to an LDAP server from it. I wouldn't be too >surprised if they purchase as many CF licenses as the other 99%. > >Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >http://www.figleaf.com/ > >Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized >instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, >Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. >Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246700 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
