Re: SSO (Re: [Fsfe-uk] An ignorant question?)

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Alex,

> Single sign-on isn't really about distributed authentication - even
> winbind can do that. I'm thinking more about how you integrate auth
> and the various permissions a user has into all the apps you are
> using, and being able to have other machines recognise it.

Have you looked at factotum in Plan 9, 4th Edition, operating system
from Bell Labs?  That provides `single sign-on' to the user logged into
the Plan 9 system.

Cheers,


Ralph.