SAML is being used as a Web single sign-on, an Attribute-based Authorization, and in securing Web services.

SAML现在被用于web单点登录、基于属性的授权和保护Web服务。

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At the beginning of this decade Microsoft, then feared as a bullying monopolist, tried but failed to create a "single sign-on" called "Passport" for the whole web. Nobody signed on.

在本世代初微软尚作为一个恃强凌弱的垄断者而广为畏惧时，它即试图为整个网络提供一种名为“通行证”的“一次性登陆”的解决方案，但却以失败告终，因为没有人登陆它。

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Question: What is the best way to implement single sign-on for a Web service which calls other Web services? (submitted by RR)?

问：为调用其他Web服务的Web服务实现单点登录的最佳方法是什么？

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Hence the single sign-on approach, in which either the user's computer or the Web site "remembers" passwords.

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