What is DACS?
section.) You can think of DACS as an authentication framework plus an authorization framework. The authentication framework consists of an assortment of authentication methods (plugins) that can be combined and extended, including methods that will work with the usernames and passwords that you probably already use. The authorization framework includes a general-purpose rule-processing engine. A programming language, similar to Perl but much smaller, allows run-time configuration processing and access control rule evaluation to be programmable. As a result, system configuration is highly flexible and its behaviour can be easily customized. A collection of command-line utilities and web services is supplied to administer, customize, and monitor the system. With a handful of configuration and data files, these pieces create a complete and unified system, DACS. The authentication and authorization frameworks, and many of the other pieces, can be used on their own, separately from the lar
