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🔐 Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) App and Plugin for Caddy v2. 💎 Implements Form-Based, Basic, Local, LDAP, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 (Github, Google, Facebook, Okta, etc.), SAML Authentication. MFA/2FA with App Authenticators and Yubico. 💎 Authorization with JWT/PASETO tokens. 🔐
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The tiniest OpenID Certified™ authorization and authentication server you have ever seen. tinyauth is open source, written primarily in Go, released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. Its repository has 8K GitHub stars and 259 forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in Auth & user management.
Visit ↗| Fact | caddy-security | tinyauth |
|---|---|---|
| Official SDK installs, 30 days | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| SDK evidence captured | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| GitHub stars | 2.2K | 8K |
| Forks | 103 | 259 |
| Open issues | 21 | 31 |
| Last commit | 1 months ago | yesterday |
| Primary language | Go | Go |
| License | Apache License 2.0 | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing model | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Founded | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Categories | Auth & user management | Auth & user management |
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