Courier Authentication Library
The Courier Authentication Library is an API toolkit for implementing password validation and account metadata lookups. Authentication can be configured using either the traditional system password file lookups, or using MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP, or DB/GDBM databases.
| Tags | Communications Email Database API |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C Perl |
Recent releases
- 18 Dec 2008 14:23
Release Notes: This release adds support for additional hash functions. The Postgres driver was updated to remove potentional SQL injection vulnerabilities in some circumstances.
- 13 Jul 2008 23:37
Release Notes: This release adds API functions for supporting SASL EXTERNAL authentication.
- 08 Jun 2008 21:51
Release Notes: This release fixes an SQL injection possibility in the MySQL module, with MySQL databases that use non-Latin character sets.
- 30 Sep 2007 00:05
Release Notes: This release fixes minor bugs in the authvchkpw and authuserdb modules. The license was updated to GPL 3.
- 30 Dec 2006 12:35
Release Notes: This release fixes many compiler warnings, updates the LDAP API to OpenLDAP 2.3, tweaks the Makefile to make Solaris's linker happy, and cleans up the RPM spec file.
Recent comments
Hint for authshadow users
authshadow is not compiled in by default (at least on Slackware) and the documentation on how to label it is effeciently buried! Run configure with --with-authshadow to save yourself a lot of headache.
mrsam
01 Jan 2005 17:20
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