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We installed Novell Single Sign-on (NSSO) software on a network consisting of one NetWare 5.1 server running on a Compaq ProLiant 5500R with dual 550 Xeon processors and 512M bytes of memory. The NetWare server had one 9G-byte disk with a single SYS volume and a second 9G-byte disk split into four separate volumes. The network also had a Windows NT 4.0 server running on an identical Compaq ProLiant system.
Our client systems included a generic Pentium 400-MHz machine with 128M bytes of memory running Windows 98. A second client was an older machine with an IBM/Cyrix P200 processor that is not 100% Pentium compatible. We installed the NSSO client software to both machines along with the latest NetWare client from Novell.
To measure the difficulty of installing and configuring the product we selected two different workstations to test the software. Once we had the software installed we then attempted to log on to several custom applications and Web sites to test the password management features. To gauge the ease of use we manually set passwords to expire and then attempted to log on to sites with which we had previously established credentials. From an administration perspective we looked at the various options that could be changed for individual users and groups.
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