Software:Accounts & SSO

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Short description: Single sign-on framework for computers
Accounts & SSO
Ubuntu Online Accounts.png
Accounts & SSO as used by Ubuntu
Original author(s)Nokia
Developer(s)Intel, Canonical Ltd, KDE
Initial releaseNovember 16, 2009; 14 years ago (2009-11-16)
Stable release
Varying[1]
Written inC (glib), C++ (Qt)
Operating systemUnix-like
Available inMultilingual
TypeSingle sign-on framework
LicenseGNU LGPL 2.1
Websiteaccounts-sso.gitlab.io

Accounts & SSO, accounts-sso, or lately gSSO is a single sign-on framework for computers.

Originating as part of Maemo 5[2] Accounts-SSO is free software licensed under LGPL 2.1. Accounts-SSO was deployed as a standard component of Nokia N900, Nokia N9,[3] Tizen,[4] and Ubuntu.[5] Later it was integrated in KDE Plasma Workspaces.[6][7]

History

Accounts-SSO was originally developed by Nokia who eventually shipped it as part of Maemo 5[2] on 2009.[8][9]

It was later integrated into MeeGo 1.2 Handset software platform[10][11] which was formally released on 2011.[12]

After the MeeGo project ended, Accounts-SSO was transferred into an independent project by Intel.[13] Canonical Ltd then adopted Accounts-SSO for Ubuntu 12.10[14] (later also Ubuntu Touch[15]) and KDE integrated it in November 2012.[16]

Features

Among Accounts-SSO's features are a plugin-based architecture, working with diverse user interfaces, storage back-ends, and varying levels of security.[3][13][17]

While Accounts-SSO is primarily being used for centralized login management to social networking services, e.g. sharing photos to a service from an image managing application and chatting on the same service from an instant messenger, its plugin-based architecture also allows for local usage, such as disk encryption for which a cryptsetup plugin for Accounts-SSO was developed.[18]

The Accounts-SSO framework consists of several individually released components:

  • signond: A daemon providing the SSO service over D-Bus – originally Qt-based, it's being rewritten by Intel using only GLib.[19]
  • libaccounts-glib: GLib-based client library for managing the accounts database.[20]
  • libaccounts-qt: Client library for managing the accounts database for Qt-based applications[21] – implemented as wrapper around libaccounts-glib.[3]
  • libsignon-glib: GLib-based client library for applications handling account authentication through the signond Single Sign-On service.[22]
  • signon plugins: A handful of signond authentication plugins are developed within the Accounts-SSO project. Among them plugins for Digest access,[23] OAuth,[24] SASL,[25] and X.509.[26]
  • account plugins: The Accounts-SSO project leaves development of plugins for specific services to 3rd parties. Open source plugins for various services (Facebook, Google, Twitter,...) are being developed by Canonical.[27]

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Accounts & SSO framework announcements". Google Project Hosting. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/accounts-sso-announce. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Maemo 5.0 to MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan binary compatibility report". Linuxtesting.org. http://linuxtesting.org/compatibility/Maemo_5.0_to_MeeGo_1.2_Harmattan/arm/abi_compat_report.html. "libaccounts-qt.so.1: Maemo 5.0: added" 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sam (2011-08-16). "The Meego Accounts & Single Sign On Project". Meegoexperts.com. http://www.meegoexperts.com/2011/08/mardy-meego-accounts-single-sign-project/. 
  4. ↑ David Christopher King. "Ubuntu Online Accounts: credentials management for application developers". FOSDEM 2013. https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/onlineaccounts/attachments/slides/199/export/events/attachments/onlineaccounts/slides/199/uoa_fosdem_2013.pdf. 
  5. ↑ "GNOME Online Accounts: why it is the way it is". Debarshiray.wordpress.com. https://debarshiray.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/goa-why-it-is-the-way-it-is/. 
  6. ↑ "KDE Online Accounts". KDE. https://projects.kde.org/kde-accounts. 
  7. ↑ "KDE Telepathy joins KDE Applications release bundle as fully ported to Plasma 5". Marty's typepad. http://martys.typepad.com/blog/2015/03/kde-telepathy-joins-kde-applications-release-bundle-as-fully-ported-to-plasma-5.html. 
  8. ↑ "Maemo 5 final release: firmware and updated SDK | flors". Flors.wordpress.com. https://flors.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/maemo-5-final-release-updated-sdk-and-firmware/. 
  9. ↑ "Maemo 5/PR1.0 - maemo.org wiki". Wiki.maemo.org. http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_5/PR1.0. 
  10. ↑ "Integrating account management to applications". Harmattan-dev.nokia.com. 2012-04-24. http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/guide/html/Developer_Library_Best_practices_for_application_development_Integrating_account_management_to_applications.html. 
  11. ↑ "Index of /MeeGo/releases/1.2.0/repos/oss/source". Repo.meego.com. http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/1.2.0/repos/oss/source/. 
  12. ↑ "1.2 Release". MeeGo. https://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2011/meego-1.2-release. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "accounts-sso – Accounts & SSO framework". Google Project Hosting. https://code.google.com/p/accounts-sso/#Introduction. 
  14. ↑ "Online Accounts landed in Ubuntu 12.10 as default | Iloveubuntu: Ubuntu blog". Iloveubuntu. 2012-08-22. http://www.iloveubuntu.net/online-accounts-landed-ubuntu-1210-default. 
  15. ↑ "Online Accounts setup for Ubuntu Touch in Launchpad". Launchpad.net. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts. 
  16. ↑ Added by Àlex Fiestas (2012-11-29). "Web Account Management System - Revision 2a0be841 - KDE Projects". Projects.kde.org. https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/uaccounts/web-accounts/repository/revisions/2a0be8410f0ce81287ccecddb0dbf0f7825e3ac9. 
  17. ↑ "Online Accounts | Ubuntu App Developer". Canonical Ltd.. http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/technologies/online-accounts/. 
  18. ↑ "extensions/cryptsetup". Google Project Hosting. https://code.google.com/p/accounts-sso/source/browse/?repo=signond#git%2Fsrc%2Fextensions%2Fcryptsetup. 
  19. ↑ Alexander Kanavin (March 15, 2013). "GNOME Online Accounts: why it is the way it is". https://debarshiray.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/goa-why-it-is-the-way-it-is/#comment-265. "[…] just a quick note to you all that we (Intel OTC) are rewriting the SSO daemon and authentication plugins in C using glib and gdbus […]" 
  20. ↑ "Part I. libaccounts-glib Overview". gitlab.io. https://accounts-sso.gitlab.io/libaccounts-glib/libaccounts-glib-overview.html. 
  21. ↑ "accounts-qt: Accounts-Qt library". gitlab.com. 2012-10-11. https://gitlab.com/accounts-sso/libaccounts-qt. 
  22. ↑ "libsignon-glib". gitlab.com. https://gitlab.com/accounts-sso/libsignon-glib. 
  23. ↑ "signon-plugin-digest". Google Project Hosting. https://code.google.com/p/accounts-sso/source/browse?repo=signon-plugin-digest. 
  24. ↑ "ANNOUNCE: Release of signon-plugin-oauth2 0.15". Google Discussion Groups. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/accounts-sso-announce/yPuoMOX9dtU. 
  25. ↑ "gsignond-plugin-sasl". Google Project Hosting. https://code.google.com/p/accounts-sso/source/browse?repo=gsignond-plugin-sasl. 
  26. ↑ "signon-plugin-x509". Google Project Hosting. https://code.google.com/p/accounts-sso/source/browse?repo=signon-plugin-x509. 
  27. ↑ "Ubuntu: "account-plugins" package". Launchpad.net. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/account-plugins. 



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