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Use Case 4: Extended Networks

In Use Case 4, smcompany.com, ahealthco.com, and discounts.com all participate in an extended federated network. This case is an extension of the previous use cases.

In this network, not all customers of ahealthco.com work at smcompany.com. Ahealthco.com provides discounts only to its customers by establishing a relationship between themselves and discounts.com. Ahealthco.com maintains user identities for every customer so ahealthco.com manages local credentials, such as a password for each user. By managing local credentials, ahealthco.com can authenticate users and can provide single sign-on access to its partners.

In this extended network, the users access each website differently:

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Solution 4: SSO in an Extended Network