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Linux-Announce Digest #313
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Linux-Announce Digest #313, Volume #5 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:13:04 EST
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DACS 1.4.9 released (Barry Brachman)
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From: Barry Brachman <brachman@dss.bc.ca>
Subject: DACS 1.4.9 released
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:25:37 -0600
Reply-To: brachman@dss.ca
December 21, 2005
DSS is pleased to announce DACS version 1.4.9.
This is primarily a bug fix and minor enhancements release.
Because DACS is security software, we urge all users to upgrade.
DACS is:
o an open source identity management and access control system;
o a flexible and powerful role-based access control system;
o a set of feature-rich authentication methods;
o an Apache 2.0.X module and suite of CGI programs;
o a federated identity management system (single sign-on);
o able to apply coarse-grained access control to web service requests made
using standard web browsers;
o able to provide fine-grained access control functionality to almost any
program or script;
o a collection of web services that can provide access control and
identity management functionality to middleware;
o a C/C++ toolkit for building new authentication and access control
functionality into programs, whether web-based or not;
o for Unix-type platforms (currently), such as Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris;
o and has an open, lightweight design and portable implementation.
For Web Sites:
DACS can help manage access to web resources in many situations, whether you
have just one web server, several web servers at one site, or many web
servers spread across the Internet. While its universal authentication
component can be used on its own with a single Apache server, DACS can be
deployed as a single sign-on, multi-server identity management and access
control system for small to medium size organizations.
For Developers:
The dacscheck(1) command gives platform-independent, general-purpose access
to the DACS access control rule evaluation engine. It can be used by any
virtually *any* application, script (Perl, PHP, shell, etc.), server
software, or CGI program to make data-driven access control decisions rather
than program-driven ones. dacscheck can be used by itself and does not
depend on any other DACS programs, web services, or even a web server.
Simply install it and start to use it. Please refer to the manual page for
details and examples (http://dacs.dss.bc.ca/man/dacscheck.1.html).
DACS 1.4.9 is released under dual licensing terms (a GPL-compatible open
source license and a commercial license).
DACS is hosted on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dacs
For more information, please visit the DACS home page at http://dacs.dss.ca
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** Barry Brachman, Ph.D.
** Distributed Systems Software, Inc.
** brachman@dss.ca
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