Kasai: Authentication and authorization framework

Kasai v2.0.0 available!!

After what seemed forever, Kasai v2 is here. Go get your copy now.

The most important changes for this new version are:

• Multiple database support (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL)
• Bundled web administrative interface, including user, group and role management, and audit queries
• Stronger password hashing algorithms for RDBMSAuthService (thanks to the Jasypt guys)
• Pluggable password validators
• Many, many bug fixes and minor additions

v2.0.0 alpha 2

Hi again, alpha 2 is out as you probably guessed from the title. Apart from some minor bug fixes, we included:

• Customizable password structure validators, including two bundled samples and the framework for you to write your owns.
• Usage of a much much stronger hashing algorithm for RDBMS based users/passwords storage. Check out the Jasypt project (www.jasypt.org) for some very nice, powerfull and yet simple Java encryption/hashing implementations.

As usual you can get the new version from the downloads section at the sourceforge project page.

We are also planning on migrating the Kasai Manual to an online Wiki based version, so stay tuned for news on this front.

Features check-in

We’ve just checked into CVS the following changes:

• SQL Server support
• PostgreSQL support
• Dynamic users and groups fields

The web admin interface still needs work, so until thats finished we wont release a beta version of 2.0. Hopefully more news will come soon.