We do have a client software which communicates to a server. On every start of the client the user has to put in username/password. Now it would be nice if the user did login once (assuming he is still in the same operating system session) subsequent logins wouldn’t require a password. (Sidenote: the security requirements aren’t really high, so this would be okay). Is there some unique id which the client can extract from the system that ids the session? If yes the server could save the session id and if it is the same we wouldn’t need to ask for a password.
Thanks in advance.
P.S.: Keberos is an overkill in that case…
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