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Glossary: Monitoring Tools and the Identity Life Cycle

Same sign-on

Applications all checking the same directory account and password, usually by LDAP bind, so each person has one password everywhere but still types it into each app. It differs from true SSO, where services never see the password.

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Related terms

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)Single sign-on (SSO)Password synchronization