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Re: User credential passing standard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Gulati)
Tue Apr 27 14:07:38 1999
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www-talk-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 12
Re: User credential passing standard
No doubt I am showing my ignorance, so tell me to shut up if I am just butting in, but surely
kerberos offers a SSO credential passing system that is extendable accross domains? All you
need is a cookie naming convention so clients can cache their credentials from any particular
server on a known cookie on their own machine?
Anil
anilg@geocities.com
ngulati@scu.edu.au
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> You didn't mention if the servers are in the same Domain. If they are then
> using a combination of Domain cookies and a common authentication server to
> your
> servers would probably do the trick. Digest authentication is better but
> as people have already stated, it ain't there yet. Are you worried about
> session timouts, single signon, access control and simplified administration?
> You might want to look at a commercial SSO system for web servers.
I am developing a commercial SSO system of sorts. I just want to plan for
some level of interopability.
And I guess the servers I have in mind are in the same domain. But I would
think that the user credential "data" would be the same in either case. I
am less interested in "how" this data would be passed in these two cases.
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Neil (Anil) Gulati
ngulati@scu.edu.au
Unix Systems
Information Technology Directorate
Southern Cross University
Northern Rivers NSW Australia
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