GLAuth – lightweight LDAP server

Go-lang LDAP Authentication (GLAuth) is a secure, easy-to-use, LDAP server with configurable backends.

Use it to centralize account management across your Linux servers, your macOS machines, and your support applications (Jenkins, Apache/Nginx, Graylog2, and many others).

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Centrally manage accounts across your infrastructure.
• Centrally manage SSH keys, Linux accounts, and passwords for cloud servers.
• Lightweight alternative to OpenLDAP and Active Directory for development, or a homelab.
• Store your user directory in a file, local or in S3; SQL database; or proxy to existing LDAP servers.
• Two Factor Authentication (transparent to applications).
• Multiple backends can be chained to inject features.

Website: github.com/glauth/glauth
Support:
Developer: Ned McClain and Ben Yanke
License: MIT License

GLAuth is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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