Distributed Access Control System

Distributed Access Control System
DACS - The Distributed Access Control System
Original author(s) Developers at Distributed Systems Software
Developer(s) Distributed Systems Software
Stable release 1.4.26 / September 30, 2011; 14 days ago (2011-09-30)
Development status production
Written in C with APIs for some other languages
Operating system FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Sun Solaris
Platform POSIX
Available in English
Type Computer security
License Modified Sleepycat License
Website dacs.dss.ca

The Distributed Access Control System (DACS) is a light-weight single sign-on and role-based access control system for web servers and server-based software. DACS is primarily used with Apache web servers to provide enhanced access control for web pages, CGI programs and servlets, and other web-based assets, and to federate Apache servers.

Released under an open source license, DACS provides a modular authentication framework that supports an array of common authentication methods and a rule-based authorization engine that can grant or deny access to resources, named by URLs, based on the identity of the requestor and other contextual information. Administrators can configure DACS to identify users by employing authentication methods and user accounts already available within their organization. The resulting DACS identities are recognized at all DACS jurisdictions that have been federated.

In addition to simple web-based APIs, command-line interfaces are also provided to much of the functionality.

Development of DACS began in 2001, with the first open source release made available in 2005.

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Authentication

DACS can use any of the following authentication methods and account types:

The extensible architecture allows new methods to be introduced.

DACS can also act as an Identity Provider for InfoCards and function as a Relying Party.

Authorization

DACS performs access control by evaluating access control rules that are specified by an administrator. Expressed as a set of XML documents, the rules are consulted at run-time to determine whether access to a given resource should be granted or denied.

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