wordpress 3.9 remote token auth

Question

I came across the following code here

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Remote Login
Description: Log into the site with creds that work on remote site (as defined in plugin). The remote site must have XML-RPC enabled.
Author: Kailey Lampert
Author URI: http://kaileylampert.com/

    THIS IS NOT COMPLETE - DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION

    The remote site (defined below in $server) is the "master" site.
    All active users on the master site can log in this site with their "master" credentials

    "this site" means the site this plugin is installed on :)

    When they log in a "ghost" users is created. This user is not destroyed. Ideally they'd self-delete after some amount of time to make sure we don't have unneeded users sticking around... 
    If the user already exists, a new password will be created each time it is logged in.

    "ghost" users are always admins, even if the master user isn't. This needs to be fixed.
*/

new Remote_Login();

class Remote_Login {

    //this should be your remote site
    var $server = 'demo.trepmal.com'; //has public credentials demo:demo for testing
        //demo.trepmal.com resets periodically, so the XML-RPC option may be off by the time you use this
        //that's a good thing, else anyone could log into this site with demo:demo

    function __construct() {
        add_filter( 'authenticate', array( &$this, 'auth' ), 10, 3 );
    }

    function auth( $user, $username, $password ) {
        if ($username == 'demo') {
            //if username is 'demo'. may change this to check for special username prefix or something...

            //try it against remote server
            if ( ! $this->remote_login_check( $this->server, $username, $password )) return $user;

            //if it worked, setup new user
            $username = 'prefix_'.$username; //prefix the "ghost" user's username
            $password = wp_generate_password( 16, true );

            //if user already exists, change the password
            if ( $user_id = username_exists( $username ) ) {
                wp_set_password( $password, $user_id );
                $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
            } else {
            //else create the user
                $user_id = wp_create_user( $username, $password );
            }
            //authenticate them
            $user = wp_authenticate( $username, $password );
            //make sure it has correct role
            $user->set_role('administrator'); //we should be fetching the "master" user's role, and using that instead of always administrator
        }
        return $user;
    }

    function remote_login_check( $server, $username, $password ) {

        require_once( ABSPATH . '/wp-includes/class-IXR.php' );
        $client = new IXR_Client( esc_url( $server ) .'/xmlrpc.php' );

        //test query, see if creds work
        //todo: instead of wp.getOptions, get user so we can give the "ghost" a better role
        if ( ! $client->query( 'wp.getOptions', '', $username, $password, 'blog_title' ) ) {  

            //return $client->getErrorMessage();
            return false;

            echo 'Error occured during the request.<br />' .
                $client->getErrorCode() . ': ' . $client->getErrorMessage();

        } else {

            //return $client->getResponse();
            return true;
            printer( $client->getResponse() );
        }        

    }

}


if ( ! function_exists( 'printer') ) {
    function printer( $input ) {
        echo '<pre>' . print_r( $input, true ) . '</pre>';
    }
}

source

Currently the remote authentication is token based. So when the user logs in a token is generated validating the user. I haven't come across any good documentation in implementing remote authentication with Wordpress. Is there any good code samples or tutorials in doing this.