What could be simpler?
- TAGS:login, password, username
- IT TOPICS:Applications, Internet, Networking, Security
IT department sends an e-mail blast to the users: From now on, everyone will use a single log-in credential for all areas of the network, according to a pilot fish on the receiving end.
Fish's reaction to single sign-on? "Yahoo! No more numerous account credentials to keep track of for various subsystems within the domain!"
In short order, all users are issued their single log-in credentials. And someone in IT has thought this through: The new username and password are the same as for the user's existing e-mail account. That should make them easier for users to remember.
There's just one catch.
It turns out that before a user can get to the single-log-in screen to use his single-log-in credentials, he first has to go to the subsystem he's planning to use.
And then log in with the special subsystem credentials that have been such a pain.
And then arrive at the universal log-in page.
"Now the user can apply the convenient single log-in to get into the targeted system," says fish.
"Thanks for simplifying our lives!"
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