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RE: Single Sign On
From: "Drew Hunt" <Drew () Valleymed org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:01:22 -0800
About a year ago we look at a couple of SSO options. At work we have over 30 applications that require usernames and passwords. It is painful. one vendor was www.truesystems.com they had a simple elegant interface that allows fast user switching and thin client and PC support. Supported windows/novell/unix, web based applications, terminal emulation programs and such. It was very nice. They came out to our site and within a half a day had the 15 systems working with their SSO. No expensive, painful TCL scripts to write. Very simple. We also looked at http://www.protocom.com/. They have about the same features and supported all of our applications. What was cool about this vendor was that they leveraged Active Directory and they didn't require a different "password database" server. They stored all systems usernames and passwords as attributed of the user in AD. It was very cool. Lots of flexibility. Could store the 100 web usernames and passwords that I use as well. Had same functionality as the vendor above and also did an on-site demo. We haven't implemented anything yet but they are options to give you ideas. If you have lots of apps and platforms to support these actually work but they are on the spendy side. Not as spendy as the 200 daily passwords resets by the help desk. HTH Drew -----Original Message----- From: Trevor Cushen [mailto:Trevor.Cushen () sysnet ie] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:19 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Single Sign On Has anyone successfully implemented a single sigh on solution in a Unix / Windows environment? If so could you send on product details or a URL to a guide please. NOT Web based, I know there are a few web based solutions but I need it in an enterprise with Windows NT and up, Linux servers and MS-SQL. Client has one logon only or single sign on. I am looking at kerberos so if I am going down the wrong track please let me know. Many thanks Trevor Cushen
Current thread:
- Single Sign On Trevor Cushen (Mar 11)
- Re: Single Sign On John O'Connor (Mar 12)
- Re: Single Sign On Chris Travers (Mar 13)
- RE: Single Sign On Walter Williams (Mar 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Single Sign On Depp, Dennis M. (Mar 12)
- Re: Single Sign On planz (Mar 13)
- RE: Single Sign On Drew Hunt (Mar 13)
- Re: Single Sign On John O'Connor (Mar 12)