Single Sign-On (SSO) Mechanism Explained
by Bradley Nice, Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — software documentation tool
Nowadays we use the Internet a lot: Facebook, Twitter, Google, StackOverflow and so on. And we should somehow keep in mind all the passwords from every single account. Using one password for all the sites is definitely the worst security solution. What else? Using sticky notes with passwords all over the working place? Keeping passwords on a flash drive or in a doc with it’s own password? I don’t think anybody really does this kind of things. But there is a solution!
In order to
- Have accounts on a hundred of websites,
- Log in to these sites without a necessity to look into a notepad or file to recollect a password,
- Ensure that unreliable websites will not lose my email and password that are used on some other websites,
- Reduce the number of passwords to remember
There exists Single Sign On.
Guys from ClickHelp Team wrote an amazing post expaining in a quite funny manner how this whole Single Sing-On thing works. Highly recommended for reading:
Have a nice day!
Bradley Nice,
Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — best online documentation tool for SaaS vendors
