Aiakos is an innovative distributed authentication system, based on Zope and Plone. Much of the heavy lifting is done using the LDAPUserFolder product by Jens Vagelpohl. Aiakos allows you to provide a central sign-on system for a network of websites. All login and registration activity takes place on the central Aiakos server. Participating sites receive encrypted authentication packages from the authentication server, with which they can authenticate users. Client libraries are provided for Microsoft Windows (as COM objects) and as a Zope Product for Plone 1. The central user database is stored on an LDAP server, and participating sites are provided with access to the LDAP server for complex user-related activity - however, most sites will never need this. In addition a distributed event logging system is included, that allows interesting events to be recorded on participating sites, and then collected by a central server. Aiakos is released under the GNU General Public License. Aiakos is beta software, but is in very active testing. See the Aiakos website for more information: http://aiakos.sourceforge.net Doug Winter ICP Europe -- 020 79610341 / 07879 423002 / dwinter@icpeurope.net 3 Waterhouse Square, Holborn Bars, 142 Holborn, London EC1N 2NX www.businesseurope.com www.icpeurope.net www.venturedome.com 1024D/1AB26B8C C88E DC6D A578 DEFB C493 A44D 0156 0479 1AB2 6B8C