On 14 Sep, 13:01, gosha bine <stereof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14.09.2007 13:45 Lado.Lesko...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > Hi!
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> > I was given a task to develop a php based application. All well, but
> > now my boss wants me to make it more "user friendly" in a manner that
> > they won't have to write in their usernames and passwords, which they
> > already have too many.
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> You answered it yourself: no one wants his login to be visible and no
> website can access user's system login. However what your boss said
> makes sense, people are tired of having too many logins, that's why
> there are distributed identification schemes like MS Passport or OpenID.
> I think this technology would be worth investigating for you.
>

Not even Microsoft are punting Passport any more. NTLM is definitely
worth considering - but maybe ident is all you need (good for a quick
fix in very low security environments - but easily tricked) as are
client-side certificates

C.