Open Source Today

Novell on Monday plans to officially launch Bandit, an open-source identity management project that was quietly started earlier this year.

As previously reported by CNET News.com, the Bandit project aims to create a set of open-source components for services that use identity data in online transactions, whether corporate or consumer. By going public, Novell hopes to attract more developers to build on its initial code for network sign-on, policy-based administration and other directory-related services.