Distributed Access Control System
DACS is a light-weight single sign-on and role-based access control system providing flexible, modular authentication methods and powerful, transparent rule-based authorization checking for Web services, CGI programs, or virtually any program.
| Tags | Security Internet Web HTTP Servers |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD Linux Solaris |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 14 Jan 2009 12:17
Changes: This release mainly fixes an assortment of bugs and upgrades to recent releases of third-party supporting software.
- 31 Mar 2008 09:12
Changes: This release features some significant performance and administrative improvements, including a new indexing mechanism for access control rules to accelerate searches, re-introduction of the authorization caching feature to optionally bypass authorization checking of requests after they have been approved once, and a complete rewrite of the dacs_admin Web service to provide a fully REST-ful, unified, and comprehensive administrative Web-based console.
- 15 Aug 2007 11:41
Changes: This release includes an important bugfix to local_passwd_authenticate that prevents invalid passwords from being accepted. Some minor bugs have also been addressed, including some problems with dacs.quick(7).
- 02 Jul 2007 14:37
Changes: This is primarily a bugfix and minor enhancements release. All users are urged to upgrade.
- 04 Apr 2007 15:19
Changes: Notable improvements in this release include a new "authentication-at-authorization-time" feature that allows users to be authenticated non-interactively, based on a request URL, argument, or other context; a new "Rlinks" feature that allows URLs to be associated with authorizing rules and identities; and an assortment of new functions and configuration directives.
