Apache Fortress
Open-Source Project
Description
Apache Fortress Overview
FORTRESS is a standards-based authorization system, that provides role-based access control, delegated administration and password policy services using an LDAP backend.
What’s in it?
Included are the following components:
- Core - Java Authorization SDK
- Realm - Java EE security for Apache Tomcat
- Rest - HTTP protocol wrappers for the APIs using Apache CXF
- Web - HTML pages and framework for the APIs using Apache WicketIt’s released under terms of the Apache License 2.0.
How Does It Work?
Fortress is a Role-Based Access Control security system. It uses a directory server to store the information about users, roles, permissions, etc. Out-of-the-box it supports either ApacheDS or OpenLDAP servers but works with any LDAPv3 compliant system.
(https://directory.apache.org/fortress/overview.html, accessed 26 May 2021)
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