Overview [1]#

Apache Fortress is an Apache project and is a standards-based Access Control Engine system, written in Java, that provides Role Based Access Control, delegated administration and password Policy services with LDAP.

Included are the following components:

• Core - Java Access Management SDK
• Realm - Java EE security for Apache Tomcat
• REST - HTTP protocol wrappers for the APIs
• Web - HTML pages for the APIs

It's released under terms of the Apache License 2.0.

Apache Fortress is a Role-Based Access Control security system. It uses a directory server to store the information about users, roles, permissions, etc. Out-of-the-box it supports either ApacheDS or OpenLDAP servers but works with any LDAPv3 compliant system.

ANSI Role Based Access Control (INCITS 359) (NIST RBAC

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Apache Directory Project

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• [#1] - Fortress Overview - based on information obtained 2017-12-08-