The OpenSolaris Authentication and Authorisation project (Auth for short) is intended to deliver a new authentication and authorisation mechanism for opensolaris.org. The impetus behind this project is that the current opensolaris.org infrastructure has issues in several areas:
- Functionality
- Flexibility
- Modularity
- Extensibility
- Stability & maintainability
The website restructuring page holds a more detailed description of these issues, and contains documents explaining both the current infrastructure and the proposed migration path.
In order to migrate from the current system, the first step is to provide a new user management system that provides distributed, secure access to the details of the 100,000+ users currently registered on opensolaris.org. The Auth project will deliver that system.
Mailing lists, documents, source code and applications
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Mailing lists
The auth-discuss-ext mailing list is hosted on sun.com. If you have any questions or feedback, please send them to the list. -
Auth project architecture
These are the specification documents describing the Auth project's architecture. -
Auth SVN repository
The source of the Auth web application can be accessed via anonymous SVN at svn+ssh://auth.opensolaris.org/auth. If you would like to contribute code, please ask on the auth-discuss-ext mailing list for access. -
Auth SVN repository browser
The source of the Auth application can be browsed online at the above URL. -
Auth application
The under-development version of the Auth web application. This is regularly updated with stable snapshots as they become available. -
Auth XMPRPC API documentation
The documentation for the functions athat comprise the Auth XMLRPC interface
can be found at the above location, along with the schema of the database that
the XMLRPC functions query.