“Novell on Monday plans to officially launch Bandit, an
open-source identity management project that was quietly started
earlier this year.“As previously reported by CNET News.com, the Bandit project
aims to create a set of open-source components for services that
use identity data in online transactions, whether corporate or
consumer. By going public, Novell hopes to attract more developers
to build on its initial code for network sign-on, policy-based
administration and other directory-related services…”