Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:<p>Just released: <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/swad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swad</span></a> v0.2</p><p>SWAD is the "Simple Web Authentication Daemon", meant to add <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/cookie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cookie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/authentication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authentication</span></a> with a simple <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/login" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>login</span></a> form and configurable credential checker modules to a reverse <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/proxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proxy</span></a> supporting to delegate authentication to a backend service, like e.g. <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nginx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nginx</span></a>' "auth_request". It's a very small piece of software written in pure <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C</span></a> with as little external dependencies as possible. It requires some <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POSIX</span></a> (or "almost POSIX", like <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>, ...) environment, OpenSSL (or LibreSSL) for TLS and zlib for response compression.</p><p>Currently, the only credential checker module available offers <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/PAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PAM</span></a> authentication, more modules will come in later releases.</p><p>swad 0.2 brings a few bugfixes and improvements, especially helping with security by rate-limiting the creation of new sessions as well as failed login attempts. Read details and grab it here:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/Zirias/swad/releases/tag/v0.2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/Zirias/swad/release</span><span class="invisible">s/tag/v0.2</span></a></p>