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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 20082007, MIT Touchstone login has also been available as a fallback option, making it possible for MIT users to log in even if they don't have certificates.
As of April 9, 2009, all logins to MIT Wikis will go through MIT Touchstone.
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