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Sun to open-source single sign-on code (News.com)

[Posted July 14, 2005 by cook]

News.com looks at Sun's plans to release parts of its Java Access Manager single sign-on product as open-source code. "Web single sign-on makes it easier for users to log into multiple Web applications with one set of credentials and simplifies password management for organizations. The code Sun is releasing is meant to enable single sign-on only inside a single organization; it does not support federation across organizations."

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Shibboleth

Posted Jul 14, 2005 16:21 UTC (Thu) by hathawsh (guest, #11289) [Link]

How does this compare with Shibboleth? Shibboleth is also open source, but it allows federation between disconnected organizations, respects privacy, and its mailing list seems very active.

http://shibboleth.internet2.edu

http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/about-shibboleth.html

Sun to open-source single sign-on code (News.com)

Posted Jul 14, 2005 22:15 UTC (Thu) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]

Makes you wonder if their decision had anything to do with the recent release of the first OpenID implementation.