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| author | Arnold Daniels <arnold@jasny.net> | 2015-10-06 11:47:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold Daniels <arnold@jasny.net> | 2015-10-06 11:47:14 +0200 |
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How is this different from OAuth?
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@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ using the same session. When another broker joins in, it will also use the same For a more indepth explanation, please [read this article](https://github.com/jasny/sso/wiki). +#### How is this different from OAuth? + +With OAuth, you can authenticate a user at an external server and get access to their profile info. However you +aren't sharing a session. + +A user logs in to website foo.com using Google OAuth. Next he visits website bar.org which also uses Google OAuth. +Regardless of that, he is still required to press on the 'login' button on bar.org. + +With Jasny/SSO both websites use the same session. So when the user visits bar.org, he's automatically logged in. +When he logs out (on either of the sites), he's logged out for both. + ## Installation Install this library through composer |