Proposal: Switch to GLAuth

a commented

2022-06-25 00:35:27 +00:00

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GLAuth is a lightweight and easy to use alternative to OpenLDAP. Maybe switch to GLAuth when we convert the server to NixOS? That would require us to package GLAuth but that shouldn't be too hard.

Related: #57 (although 389 is an absolutely scary piece of software, good thing we didn't switch to it)

[GLAuth](https://github.com/glauth/glauth) is a lightweight and easy to use alternative to OpenLDAP. Maybe switch to GLAuth when we convert the server to NixOS? That would require us to package GLAuth but that shouldn't be too hard. Related: #57 (although 389 is an absolutely scary piece of software, good thing we didn't switch to it)

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a commented

2022-06-25 20:17:46 +00:00

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Now if GLAuth had features like a web UI for managing users and email password resets, I think we should definitely switch to it now, but our OpenLDAP server isn't broken and switching to GLAuth would give end-users the exact same experience, so it's instead something we could do in the future with the NixOS switch. @codedotjs any thoughts?

codedotjs commented

2022-06-27 18:14:11 +00:00

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GLAuth looks kind of interesting. The website promises

Setup secure authentication in under 5 minutes.

If we can package it for Nix we can try using it.

GLAuth looks kind of interesting. The website promises > Setup secure authentication in under 5 minutes. If we can package it for Nix we can try using it.

codedotjs commented

2022-06-27 18:18:59 +00:00

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I added an issue at the packages repo.

I added an [issue](https://git.exozy.me/exozyme/packages/issues/13) at the packages repo.

codedotjs changed title from ~~Proposol: Switch to GLAuth~~ to Proposal: Switch to GLAuth

2022-06-27 18:19:40 +00:00

a commented

2022-06-27 18:47:37 +00:00

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GLAuth looks kind of interesting. The website promises

Setup secure authentication in under 5 minutes.

If we can package it for Nix we can try using it.

Yeah, it sounds like a huge improvement over OpenLDAP which takes days to set up. Packaging GLAuth should be easy, since it's just a Go binary and a systemd service.

> GLAuth looks kind of interesting. The website promises > > Setup secure authentication in under 5 minutes. > > If we can package it for Nix we can try using it. Yeah, it sounds like a huge improvement over OpenLDAP which takes *days* to set up. Packaging GLAuth should be easy, since it's just a Go binary and a systemd service.

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exozyme/nixpkgs#13 - glauth

a commented

2022-07-17 20:03:07 +00:00

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We might just reuse OpenLDAP since we already have perfectly working configs (https://git.exozy.me/exozyme/LDAP). I'm closing this issue for now since we won't be switching to GLAuth anytime soon, but we can revisit this in the future.

a removed a dependency 2022-07-17 20:03:15 +00:00

exozyme/nixpkgs#13 - glauth

a closed this issue

2022-07-17 20:03:18 +00:00

codedotjs referenced this issue from exozyme/nixpkgs

2022-07-21 16:14:57 +00:00

glauth #13

Proposal: Switch to GLAuth #157