Single-signon (Subversion, Apache etc)

[lemmuh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (David Hummel)]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <blu-Z8efaSeK1ezqlBn2x/YWAg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but SSO normally refers to Kerberos and/or AD,
> right? ?Sign on once, and then all your authentication requests to the
> fileserver, webserver, etc, are all automatic, without even prompting. ?I
> know I've seen that in an all-MS environment...

These days there are a number of enterprise-grade systems for
federated identity management and single sign-on.  You may want to
take a look at CAS and/or Shibboleth:

http://www.jasig.org/cas
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/