常见的认证服务适配器（CASA）提供了一个通用的基础设施用于客户端身份验证，在Linux和微软Windows*桌面。

Common Authentication Service Adapter (CASA) provides a common infrastructure for client authentication across Linuxand Microsoft Windowsdesktops. Novell® products (such as GroupWise®, GroupWise Messenger, iPrint, Novell iFolder®, and Novell clients for Windows and Linux) are integrated with the miCASA interface, and can take advantage of the credential store that provides the cornerstone for CASA. CASA provides the following main components: CASA Identity Development Kit (IDK): The developer kit provides a set of APIs that application and service developers can use to write user/application credentials to the credential store. The APIs internally store the credentials passed onto them by the applications in miCASAd. C, C++, C# and Java bindings are available for the CASA Identity Development Kit (IDK). * Login Credential Capture Module: On Linux, the Login Credential Capture module is imple