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Velruse is a set of authentication routines that provide a unified way to have a website user authenticate to a variety of different identity providers and/or a variety of different authentication schemes.
It is similar in some ways to RPXnow with the exception of being open-source, locally installable, and easily pluggable for custom identity providers and authentication schemes.
You can run Velruse as a stand-alone service for use with your websites regardless of the language they're written in. While Velruse itself is written in Python, since it can interact with your website purely via HTTP POST's.
Velruse can:
Warning: It's early yet for Velruse, so only those interested in developing Velruse should be taking a look into this now.
Overview
Velruse aims to simplify authenticating a user. It provides auth providers that handle authenticating to a variety of identity providers with multiple authentication schemes (LDAP, SAML, etc.).
Eventually, Velruse will include widgets similar to RPXNow that allow one to customize a login/registration widget so that a website user can select a preferred identity provider to use to sign-in.
In the mean-time, effort is focused on increasing the available auth providers for the commonly used authentication schemes and identity providers (Facebook, Google, OpenID, etc).
Unlike other authentication libraries for use with web applications, a website using Velruse for authentication does not have to be written in any particular language.
API
Velruse implements an API similar to RPXNow to standardize the way a web application handles user authentication.
Velruse Authentication flow
If the website is unable to directly access the UserStore then Step 3 can be replaced by issuing a HTTP POST in the background to the auth provider requesting the user’s information with the token.
FAQs
Simplifying third-party authentication for web applications.
We found that velruse demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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