[CLUE-Talk] Re: MS Passport Linux equivalent

[Grant Johnson]

Passport is a single point authentication service.  It allows a variety 
of companies, applications, and websites to authenticate identity 
through a single point (MS) using a slightly modified, just incompatible 
version of Kerberos.

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

>On 03-11 20:24, Mike Benavides wrote:
>
>>I like to question how much personel information you have to give Microsoft 
>>to get a Passport account.  What do they do with all that information? What 
>>happened to our personel freedom.  If we are to believe MS, they are not 
>>gathering any information yet.  That is what the .NET monster and Hailstorm 
>>is all about.  The net will not truely be free with out us.....
>>
>
>What exactly IS Passport, anyway? I always find it hard(and annoying) to wade through a
>company's BS marketing terms for things that already have well-defined terms
>in the industry. Is Passport something that provides single-sign on
>capability? Something else to do with authentication/authorization? Any good
>third-party FAQs or whitepapers?
>

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