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# Cynagora [Cynagora][1] is fast, simple and safe permission database service. Functions of *cynagora* are: * checking access for certain permission * holding permission database * simple, single function API - for checking permissions * ability to use external agent (in case of policies that can't be full processed in *cynagora* and plugins) ## Basics *Cynagora* delivers permissions based on 4 keys: CLIENT, SESSION, USER, PERMISSION. The original principle is that a server ask cynagora if a permission (the key PERMISSION) is granted for a client identified by: - its Smack label (the key CLIENT) - its user identifier, uid (the key USER) - its process identifier, pid (the key SESSION) In facts, the keys can be used with other values that the one primarily designed. For example, using the pid for the session is not safe. So it can be replaced with a string really identifying a session. The database of *cynagora* is made of rules that set permissions Cynagora implements handles differently the rules targeting any sessions and the rules targeting specific sessions. ## API Overview CYNAGORA comes with 2 APIs: - a protocol API that can be easily implemented in most languages (see src/cynagora-protocol.txt) - a client C library (see src/cynagora.h) It also provide optionally for compatibility a subset of the C client libraries. ## History Cynagora is a refit of [cynara][2] that allows inclusion of expirations. It implements the same permission database by principle but the details changes. # Compiling The compilation use the build system *cmake*. Cynagora has no dependencies. However, it can be built for using it with systemd activation. In that case it requires _lisystemd_. Example for compiling and installing cynagora: mkdir build cd build cmake .. make install Options to pass to cmake: - *WITH_SYSTEMD*: flag for generating systemd compatible units (default ON) - *WITH_CYNARA_COMPAT*: flag for producing cynara compatibility artifacts (default OFF) - *DEFAULT_DB_DIR*: path of the directory for the database (default ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LOCALSTATEDIR}/lib/cynagora) - *DEFAULT_SOCKET_DIR*: directory path of the sockets (default ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_RUNSTATEDIR}/cynagora) - *DEFAULT_INIT_FILE*: path to the initialization file to use (default ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_SYSCONFDIR}/security/cynagora.initial) Example: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local -DWITH_SYSTEMD=OFF .. # License Cynagora is licensed under a Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004. Available on Apache [website][3] or in LICENSE file. [1]: https://git.automotivelinux.org/src/cynagora/ [2]: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Security:Cynara [3]: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0