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Linux-Announce Digest #338
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Linux-Announce Digest #338, Volume #5 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:13:04 EST
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DACS 1.4.10 released (Barry Brachman)
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:22:53 -0600
From: Barry Brachman <brachman@dss.bc.ca>
Subject: DACS 1.4.10 released
Reply-to: brachman@dss.ca
January 26, 2005
DSS is pleased to announce DACS version 1.4.10.
This is primarily a bug fix and minor enhancements release.
Because DACS is security software, we urge all users to upgrade.
A contributed resource project for DACS has been created. Its first
resource is the DACS Java Library (DJL), which is being developed to support
the use of DACS in Java client applications. It implements Java wrapper classes
for selected DACS services, and provides an HTTP client through which DACS
services may be accessed and DACS credentials obtained and managed.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dacs-contrib
DACS is:
o a federated-identity management system (single sign-on);
o a powerful role-based access control system that is able to apply
coarse-grained access control to web service requests and can provide
fine-grained access control functionality to almost any program or script;
o for Unix-type platforms, such as Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
For Web Sites:
DACS can help manage access to web resources, whether you have just one web
server, several web servers at one site, or many web servers spread across
the Internet.
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.
DACS 1.4.10 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
--
** Barry Brachman, Ph.D.
** Distributed Systems Software, Inc.
** brachman@dss.ca
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