Ruby on Rails can be used to build many kinds of web applications including public internet applications as well as private intranet ones. As an intranet application it is often very interesting to be able to do Single Sign-On using an existing Active Directory setup. Rails does not support NTLM authentication out of the box which is what is required. IIS for NTLM If you are talking about Active D
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