Even without SSO, Firefox users could adopt automatic login for all these services, and just maintain a strong master password on Firefox.
For web services not involving monetary transactions, this is probably a good enough solution for many people, apart from anyone in a sensitive country, or who regularly make use of computers in public locations. -- David Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > Jonathan Marsden wrote: >> OK then. I can't create new pages on the Crosswire wiki (need to wait >> four days so it knows me... odd, since I have a shell account on the >> machine ... looks like crosswire doesn't do any kind of single sign on >> authentication, but keeps shell/forums/wiki user data 100% separate). >> > > We introduced this 4 day gap as a way to reduce the Wikispam we got. > > Single sign on was discussed a couple of times, but I think no one ever > got their head around sorting it given the large number of disparate > system we run. Also the pressure of misery caused by multiple logins was > never very high given the fact that only a few of us are on all subsites > active. But I am sure, Troy will be delighted to hear to your > suggestions how to solve this anyway. > > Logins we use and need: > > Wiki > Bugs database > News database > Forums > Shell access > SVN access > Community website > Website translators > SwordWeb translators > Tomcat various admin functions > > probably more if you think about. > >> Meanwhile, I've created and tested little scripts for Debian, Ubuntu, >> Fedora, Mandriva and RHCE/CentOS and documented the basic approach in >> the sandbox at http://crosswire.org/wiki/CrossWire:Sandbox > > Great! > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/autotools-help-tp25249996p25274639.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
