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Subject: Fwd: pam_xacml
This also may be of interest and should be added to our home page. b Begin forwarded message: > From: Andreas Klenk <klenk@ri.uni-tuebingen.de> > Date: December 1, 2008 11:48:07 PM PST > To: bill@parducci.net > Cc: Tobias Heide <tobias@flashbit.de> > Subject: pam_xacml > > Hello Mister Parducci, > > I want to bring our experimental project to your attention. It is a > PAM module that allows XACML authorization for many existing > applications (SS5 Socks Server, su, Apache, ...) and does not > require changes to the code. XACML authorization with pam_xacml can > simply be enabled through the PAM configuration. PAM is available(/ > is enabled per default) for most Unix/Linux operating systems. The > pam_xacml module currently works with the sunxacml implementation > and Joseph Bester's PDP. > > The Code is open source and is available here for testing: > http://pamxacml.sourceforge.net/ > > Do you think that it is relevant as XACML support tool on the TC > homepage? > > The benefits of the tool would be that it helps in testing and > devlopping unified policies for many applications. The PAM interface > is really simple and has support for many programming languages (C/C+ > +, Java, Python, ...). pam_xacml is therefore also good for > prototyping XACML authorization with new applications. > > We appended a current publication at KIVS 2009 that describes > pam_xacml in more detail. > > Kind Regards, > Andreas and Tobias > > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > =-=- > Andreas Klenk Tel.: +49 7071 29 70535 > Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute Fax.: +49 7071 29 5220 > University of Tuebingen email:klenk@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de > Sand 13 - Room B307 \|||/ http://net.informatik.uni- > tuebingen.de > D 72076 Tuebingen (o o) > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-(_)-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > =-=-
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