Enterprises with a significant number of IT services are well-adviced to think about consolidation of authentication and authentication mechanisms. There is a h

Enterprises with a significant number of IT services are well-adviced to think about consolidation of authentication and authentication mechanisms. There is a huge zoo of architectures to choose from (LDAP/AD, Kerberos, OAuth, Radius, OpenID) and most off-the-shelf software has integrations for these. Every password that your users have to remember increases the chance that they use unsafe ones or even write them down on sticky notes on their desktop. Yes, middlewares have bugs too, but most of the trivial ones likely have been found long ago.