Now that I’ve got Gallery and Moveable Type installed for personal publication, as well as SquirrelMail for email, I’m really wishing for some type of Single Sign-On solution for these excellent tools. And not just for me, here’s why.
For every picture or article that I put online there are at least two or three that are locked behind password-protected doors meant only for viewing by friends, family, or just me. While web publication is great and I hope that some of the ideas and pointers I put up here are of intrest to the general public (and I’ve had a suprising number of people link to my photos), I don’t want my entire life open for everyone to see. Additionally, I’d like to allow access to a much larger portion of these items to people I actually know; but who wants to remember another password, and who wants to have to explain logging in to 5 different systems to your Grandma?
That’s why we need to work on some type of centralized SSO system and integrate it into each of these great web tools so that, for example, my sister can log on with one username/password and get access to all the family pictures and specific information (plus log in to her email which I host here as well).
pubcookie might be a good start. It would be sweet if there was some centralized registry for this information though.
(Note that I’ve turned comments back on, so hit me with them!)
Rand Wacker 
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