"A small software development company this week disclosed that
it will soon offer prebuilt versions of Microsoft's Passport
Internet-based authentication technology for the Unix and Linux
operating systems.
"The news follows Microsoft's announcement Thursday that it will
share some of the source code for its single sign-on service. The
software giant said it would make available in November the code to
the Passport Manager--software that links a Web site or a software
application to Microsoft's Passport service, which allows users to
log on to multiple Web-applications using a single password..."
