...
MIT Touchstone provides a single-sign-on point of entry for users of MIT services obviating the need for separate local accounts across systems and standardizing basic account management procedures for guest users, like resetting forgotten passwords and making name changes.
- In January, MIT Touchstone became the only means of access for non-MIT "guest" users of MIT Wikis.
- Since its inception MIT Wikis has defaulted to using MIT Certificates for purposes of authenticating members of the MIT community.
- Since Fall 2007, MIT Touchstone login has
...
- been available as a fallback option for MIT users, making it possible for members of the MIT
...
- Community to log in even if they don't have certificates installed in their browser.
As of April 9, 2009, all logins to MIT Wikis will go through MIT Touchstone.
...