{"id":153,"date":"2009-08-19T10:03:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/journal\/?p=153"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:52:58","slug":"single-sign-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/single-sign-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Single sign-on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is part of a telephone conversation with a member of our ITS support staff while he was having me test an issue with Citrix. I was trying to make small talk about the lack of single sign-on.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em>[It&#8217;s not funny when you have to explain it, but it&#8217;s even less funny when no one understands, so I&#8217;d better explain. Single sign-on is when you only have to sign-on to your local network one time. When you want to access any system on the network, your credentials are forwarded to the system by your computer. As long as you&#8217;re logged in to your machine, you shouldn&#8217;t have to explicitly log in to any other system on the network. This is tricky when using multiple authentication servers, but we&#8217;re standardized on Active Directory.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: So I log in with my network credentials?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITS<\/strong>: It should be your first initial, last name. <em>[So, yes.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: So why doesn&#8217;t it log in automatically?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITS<\/strong>: Just your first initial and last name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: I mean, why doesn&#8217;t it use NTLM to authenticate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITS<\/strong>: Just enter your network password.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: No, I mean, shouldn&#8217;t we have single sign-on?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITS<\/strong>: That&#8217;s right, single sign-on.<\/p>\n<p>[I gave up.]<\/p>\n<p>Single sign-on: when you have only have to log in once&#8230; on every site in the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is part of a telephone conversation with a member of our ITS support staff while he was having me test an issue with Citrix. I was trying to make small talk about the lack of single sign-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}