SSO (was: Re: [DesDev] What's next?)

[Jeff Howden]

seb,

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> From: Seb
>
> Directory services based on LDAP are platform portable,
> available for free, and were designed for this purpose.
> The alternative is to attempt to specify and build
> something ourselves, which is a larger burden in terms
> of time and resources that could be better focussed on
> making the more difficult things work.
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i see the setup and integration with some sort of ldap too costly for what
we need.

i envision all sorts of migration nightmares, spreading of data across
disparate systems, etc.

instead, why not make the authentication mechanism a webservice against the
database that houses the user data?

.jeff

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