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on 2007-05-07
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- A user has to be able to login with the same credentials across multiple sites
- For convenience, we want a user to be logged in on site B if he had logged in on site A before
- If a user logs out of a single site, we want him to be logged out in all other sites as well
Single-signon is such a common feature request for many site networks. And while frequent at that, the powers that be impose difficulties on this task that make it a daunting experience for every web developer. In this piece, I’m outlining a practical approach for a hosted Rails application.
Revisiting the definition of “single-signon” we’ll declare that this means:
This link has been bookmarked by 9 people . It was first bookmarked on 27 Mar 2007, by Danny.
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- A user has to be able to login with the same credentials across multiple sites
- For convenience, we want a user to be logged in on site B if he had logged in on site A before
- If a user logs out of a single site, we want him to be logged out in all other sites as well
Single-signon is such a common feature request for many site networks. And while frequent at that, the powers that be impose difficulties on this task that make it a daunting experience for every web developer. In this piece, I’m outlining a practical approach for a hosted Rails application.
Revisiting the definition of “single-signon” we’ll declare that this means:
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