Hi Richard, On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Richard Zulu wrote:
> Any ideas on how to implement single sign on in a linux > environment....still searching too My advice would be to try Kerberos: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11958.html If you implement LDAP without Kerberos, then even though users would have the same passwords everywhere, they would still have to enter them whenever they access a service. Whereas with Kerberos, they will get a secure token when they log in, which allows them to log into other servers and services without a password for as long as the token is valid (e.g. a few hours to a few days). Cheers, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
