DACS 1.4.19 Single Sign-On System Released

July 6, 2007; 03:44 AM

DACS is a light-weight single sign-on and role-based security system for web servers and server-based software. It provides web site administrators and software developers with:

• extended authentication and role-based access control capabilities for Apache-based web services, CGI programs, and virtually any program or script;
• a wide array of modular and efficient authentication methods, including two-factor authentication and hardware tokens;
• powerful, rule-based authorization checking that can be applied transparently to any resource or activity (such as web services, web content, and program features) by Apache-based web services and CGI programs, or virtually any program or script;
• programmable and highly configurable commands and web services;
• an Apache 2.0/2.2 module, suite of CGI programs, and collection of command line tools for Unix-type platforms, such as GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

DACS is hosted on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dacs .

Please visit the DACS home page at http://dacs.dss.ca for detailed release notes, a change summary, and the latest documentation.

About DSS
Incorporated in 1996, Distributed Systems Software has been responsible for the design and implementation of DACS since its creation in 2001. DACS is in production use by Canadian federal and provincial government departments. DSS is a small software development house that specializes in leading-edge, professional quality open source software.