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The Akenti Authorization Service code has been written by members of the Distributed Security Research Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This code is distributed under the following BSD-style license. The code uses a number of open source packages as itemized below.

This code is provided as a professional academic contribution for joint exchange. Thus it is experimental, is provided ``as is'', with no warranties of any kind whatsoever, no support, promise of updates, or printed documentation. The Regents of the University of California shall have no liability with respect to the infringement of copyrights by this code, or any part thereof.

Documentation

For more information about the Akenti project and code see http://dsd.lbl.gov/Akenti.

See Installing binaries or Installing sources for brief installation instructions or http://dsd.lbl.gov/Akenti/docs/admin.html to understand how to configure an akenti system.

If you have any questions about installing or using this code contact MRThompson@lbl.gov

Recent changes are documented in the release notes.

Packages in release 1.5

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This is currently a beta release of 1.5. As far as I know all the pieces work. The generated documentation of all the classes in included in the binary releases and should be generated in the src releases. There are also overview documents included in all releases.

The release is now separated by language as well as by source and binaries. We provide binaries for Linux RedHat 9 and Solaris 2.7 built with the g++ 3.2.2 compiler and java 1.4.2. Each Akenti package includes an example resource tree with instructions on how to install it, so that you can experiment with our tools before ceating your own resource tree. We depend on openldap 2.1.21, cppunit 1.9.11, xerces-c 2.5.0 and openssl 0.9.7. You can get these from their distributers, or you can download the libraries that we build against for Linux RedHat 9 or Solaris 2.7 from us in our 3rdparty packages.

The Java package contains the three old certificate generators and a new experimental unified AkentiCertificateManager GUI which will generate all three certificates. It mostly works, but is not as robust as the older ones. We would appreciate any feed back on the new GUI.

The C++ source package inlcudes mod_akenti, an Apache authorization module that can be built to work with either Apache 1.3 or 2.0.