NAME

       dacscred - acquire and manage DACS credentials

SYNOPSIS

       dacscred [-dd dir] [-ll log_level] [-v] op [opargs]

       dacscred --version

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of the DACS suite.

       The dacscred utility supports simple DACS authentication, optionally storing the returned DACS identities
       securely for future use by non-browser applications. Basic maintenance operations are provided for this
       cache of credentials.

       DACS per-user information, including the cache, is kept within a directory that must be owned by the
       user. Additionally, the directory must be accessible only by the user.  DACS will refuse to use any
       per-user information if file permissions are inappropriate.

       If this directory is not specified on the command line, the following is the default behaviour. If an
       environment variable named DACSDIR is available, its value is used for the name of this directory;
       otherwise, DACS will use a directory named .dacs in the user's home directory.

       The contents of the cache file are encrypted. A password must be provided when the cache is created and
       before each subsequent access. Currently, AES-128-CFB is used along with a SHA-1-based HMAC[1].

           Security
           A jurisdiction may reject credentials that are used from an IP address that does not match the IP
           address from which the credentials were initially requested (see the VERIFY_IP configuration
           directive). This means that if a cache is moved to a different host, the credentials may be treated
           as invalid if they are used from that host.

OPTIONS

       The following command line flags are common to all operations:

       -dd directory
           The DACS directory to use instead of the default is directory.

       -ll log_level
           Set the debugging output level to log_level (see dacs(1)[2]). The default level is warn.

       -v
           The -v flag bumps the debugging output level to debug or (if repeated) trace.

       --version
           Display the program's version information and then exit.

       The op argument specifies the operation to be performed. The following operations are available:

           Try to authenticate as username by invoking dacs_authenticate[3] at the URL auth-URL.  username has
           the syntax [[federation]::]jurisdiction:username (the jurisdiction component of the name must be
           provided; see dacs(1)[4]). An SSL/TLS connection is always used for this purpose.

           If authentication is successful and the -s flag is not given, the (username, auth-URL) pair will be
           recorded; subsequent invocations of the command can omit the auth-URL argument if it is unchanged. If
           the -p flag is given, the user is prompted for a password to pass to dacs_authenticate; if -pf is
           given instead, a password is read from file (stdin is read if file is "-"). If aux is given, it is
           used as the value of the AUXILIARY argument to dacs_authenticate. The -caf (-ccf) flag identifies
           file as a file of CA certificates (client certificates) in PEM format, respectively; see
           sslclient(1)[5].

           New credentials replace old credentials in the cache. Credentials and authentication mappings in the
           cache are not automatically managed, so the cache may contain credentials that have expired.

           The following example prompts the user for a password before trying to authenticate as DSS:smith:

               % dacscred auth -p DSS:smith \
                   https://dss.example.com/cgi-bin/dacs/dacs_authenticate

           The following example might be used within a script to test if $passwd is the correct password for
           DSS:smith:

               % echo $passwd | dacscred auth -s -pf - DSS:smith \
                   https://dss.example.com/cgi-bin/dacs/dacs_authenticate

           The exit status will be 0 only if the password is correct.

           Delete all credentials with a name that matches a regular expression (see regex(3)[6]).

           Print all credentials to stdout that should be sent along with a service request to the given URL. If
           no URL is given, print all credentials in the cache. Note that these credentials represent DACS
           identities and should be kept secret.

           List the names of all credentials in the cache, by default. This is equivalent to providing the cred
           argument. If the auth argument is given, a list of identities and the auth-URL arguments that were
           used to authenticate those identities is displayed. If a regex is given, the list is limited to those
           identities matched by it (cred behaviour) or those "username auth-URL" strings that match it (auth
           behaviour).

           Change the password that protects the cache. The current password must first be provided.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The program exits 0 if everything was fine, 1 if an error occurred.

BUGS

       This command only supplies partial support for interacting with dacs_authenticate.

SEE ALSO

       dacs_authenticate(8)[3]

AUTHOR

       Distributed Systems Software (www.dss.ca[7])

COPYING

       Copyright © 2003-2018 Distributed Systems Software. See the LICENSE[8] file that accompanies the
       distribution for licensing information.

NOTES

        1. HMAC
           http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2104.txt

        2. dacs(1)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.1.html

        3. dacs_authenticate
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_authenticate.8.html

        4. dacs(1)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.1.html#naming

        5. sslclient(1)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/sslclient.1.html

        6. regex(3)
           https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=regex&apropos=0&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+10.3-RELEASE&format=html

        7. www.dss.ca
           http://www.dss.ca

        8. LICENSE
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/../misc/LICENSE