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Revision as of 11:49, 28 September 2011
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* [[wikipedia:Central_Authentication_Service |CAS]], the most common method, with a requirement to provide login/password, is useful for people who are not arriving from a Sugar Shell instance (and so, Sugar's certificate-based method does not work implicitly for them), and for casual visitors or those wishing to avoid the technical work of taking care of user side certificates. The full featured option.
* [[wikipedia:Central_Authentication_Service |CAS]], the most common method, with a requirement to provide login/password, is useful for people who are not arriving from a Sugar Shell instance (and so, Sugar's certificate-based method does not work implicitly for them), and for casual visitors or those wishing to avoid the technical work of taking care of user side certificates. The full featured option.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID OpenID] authentication. Would be useful if particular service can link OpenID users and the ones got from CAS/LDAP. Without that, OpenID is just a standalone authentication method for particular service that does not relate to Central Login at all.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID OpenID] authentication. Would be useful if particular service can link OpenID users and the ones got from CAS/LDAP. Without that, OpenID is just a standalone authentication method for particular service that does not relate to Central Login at all.
* Users certificates. Might be useful, e.g., for people who need to be authenticated from a Sugar Shell where Sugar might perform some authentication routines under the hood. To be useful, this feature needs to support LDAP to reuse only users database (no single sing-on).
* Users certificates. Might be useful, e.g., for people who need to be authenticated from a Sugar Shell where Sugar might perform some authentication routines under the hood.
* ''Any method that can process authentication via LDAP, to reuse centralized users database only (no single sing-on)''.
* ''Any method that can process authentication via LDAP, to reuse centralized users database only (no single sing-on)''.