How NSSO Is Packaged

Understanding how NSSO is packaged can help you configure and administer NSSO.

Novell Single Sign-on is available in three packages:

• Novell Single Sign-on 2.1
• v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on
• Novell Single Sign-on 2.1/ v-GO Bundle

Novell Single Sign-on 2.1

The Novell Single Sign-on package contains the following:

• Server components
• Client components
• A limited version of v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on

  The limited version of v-GO allows single sign-on access to five Web sites and to a limited number of predefined Windows applications.

  However, full functionality (administered through the ConsoleOne snap-in) is not enabled. You are unable to use the following:

  • Disconnected operations
  • Single sign-on support for applications that reside on a host or mainframe, accessed through a terminal emulator

  The license in the v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on package or in the bundled package permits you to enable and use full v-GO functionality.

• NDS schema classes
• Support for Single Sign-on connectors

  Connector software provides integration between Novell Single Sign-on and Windows applications.

  NSSO provides application launchers and unique login windows that do the following:

  • Intercept the username and password
  • Store the username and password in SecretStore
  • Retrieve the username and password from SecretStore

  Subsequent logins to the application through the application launcher will not require users to manually enter a username and password.

• Support for the following browsers:
  • Netscape* Navigator* 4.x and 5.5 (but not 6)
  • Microsoft* Internet Explorer 4.x or 5.1 or later

    IMPORTANT:  If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0, you must upgrade to version 5.1 in order for v-GO to function properly.

v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on

v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on is a license to use full v-GO functionality.

You install v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on when you install other client components. It runs in a limited mode until you use ConsoleOne to enable it.

v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on contains the following:

• All of the functionality included in the Novell Single Sign-on product.
• Unlimited single sign-on capability to most Web sites and Web-based applications.

  v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on supports an unlimited number of Web logons using interfaces to Internet Explorer and Netscape 4 and 5.5. Most Web application logons are recognized by v-GO, which can provide credentials for an automated logon, or it can prompt the user whether to create a logon entry for the current Web site.

  When registering at new sites, v-GO can generate a strong password, store it as a Web logon entry in SecretStore, and insert the generated password into the registration form.

• Unlimited single sign-on to Windows applications.

  v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on provides support for most logons to Windows applications. v-GO can watch for and automatically detect and respond to most logon dialog boxes.

  After v-GO captures credentials when applications are first run, it reapplies the credentials whenever that logon dialog box is detected. If an application has a recognized password change dialog box, v-GO provides the old password and allows the user to select or generate a new password.

• Terminal emulator support.

  v-GO provides single sign-on support for the following HLLAPI-based terminal emulators:

  • Attachmate* EXTRA!*
  • Hummingbird HostExplorer
  • IBM* Personal Communications
  • RUMBA*
  • WRQ* Reflection*

• Disconnected access to stored logon data.

  v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on uses v-GO Local Store technology to access cached secrets after the NDS authenticated session is closed. Synchronization occurs when v-GO is started in the NDS connected network, whenever logon data is updated in the Local Store, and when v-GO shuts down.

• Administrative override functionality.

  Network administrators have override control to all v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on functions.

• SecretStore Manager
• SecretStore Status

Novell Single Sign-on 2.1/v-GO Bundle

This package contains all the functionality and licensing for the following:

• Novell Single Sign-on 2.1
• v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on

With this bundled package, you can enable and fully use v-GO for Novell Single Sign-on.