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NAME

       dacs.services - DACS web services

SYNOPSIS

       dacswebservice [dacsoptions[1]]

DESCRIPTION

       These web services are part of the DACS suite.

       The following is a list of DACS web services with a brief description of each. General
       aspects of DACS and its web services are discussed in dacs(1)[2]. Individual web services
       are discussed in more detail elsewhere. By default, these CGI programs are installed in
       the dacs subdirectory of the Apache cgi-bin directory.

       By convention, DACS web service names use underscores as word separators. Some web
       services have command counterparts; their names omit the underscores.

       •

               dacs_admin
               A low-level administration tool for DACS.
               [dacs_admin(8)[3]]

       •

               dacs_auth_agent
               Authenticate by delegating responsibility to a trusted identity.
               [dacs_auth_agent(8)[4]]

       •

               dacs_auth_transfer
               Transfer credentials between federations.
               [dacs_auth_transfer(8)[5]]

       •

               dacs_authenticate
               The DACS authentication service.
               [dacs_authenticate(8)[6]]

       •

               dacs_conf
               Process and display DACS configuration files.
               [dacs_conf(8)[7]]

       •

               dacs_current_credentials
               Display elements of each set of credentials sent with the request.
               [dacs_current_credentials(8)[8]]

       •

               dacs_group
               A DACS group administration tool.
               [dacs.groups(5)[9]]

       •

               dacs_list_jurisdictions
               Display information about all jurisdictions in a federation.
               [dacs_list_jurisdictions(8)[10]]

       •

               dacs_notices
               Notice presentation and acknowledgement handler.
               [dacs_notices(8)[11]]

       •

               dacs_passwd
               Administration tool for passwords used by local_passwd_authenticate.
               [dacs_passwd(8)[12]]

       •

               dacs_signout
               Typically called from a browser, this web services causes one or more
               cookies (each representing a DACS identity) to be deleted.
               Cookies are automatically deleted when a browser terminates, but it
               is sometimes useful to explicitly logoff.
               [dacs_signout(8)[13]]

       •

               dacs_version
               Display version information.
               [dacsversion(8)[14]]

       •

               dacs_vfs
               Manage items in the DACS virtual filestore.
               [dacs_vfs(8)[15]]

       •

               local_*_authenticate
               Authentication modules used by dacs_authenticate(8)[6].
               Each one implements a particular authentication method and optionally
               returns role information.

       •

               local_*_roles
               Roles modules used by dacs_authenticate(8)[6].

   Standard CGI Arguments for DACS Web Services
       The following set of CGI arguments are recognized by most DACS web services. When the
       document for a DACS web service says that it accepts "the standard CGI arguments", it is
       referring to the following arguments; not all of these arguments are necessarily
       meaningful to all web services, however.

       In general, duplicate CGI argument names are not allowed; i.e., you cannot pass an
       argument named DACS_JURISDICTION more than once when calling a DACS web service, even if
       each occurrence of the argument has the same value.

       DACS_JURISDICTION
           This argument is required by most web services. It specifies the name of the
           jurisdiction to which the request is being sent. Web services will verify that the
           jurisdiction that receives the request is the same as the intended recipient.

       DACS_VERSION
           If this argument is present, it specifies the major DACS version number (e.g., 1.4)
           expected by the client. The service request will fail if the DACS software does not
           support this version number. If not provided, no compatibility checks are performed.

       FILE
           Reserved for future use for file uploading. Requests content type
           application/x-dacs-credentials.

       FORMAT
           This optional argument requests a particular output format. The default value varies,
           but it is usually HTML. Not all formats are supported by every web service; refer to
           the manual page for details. The following values are recognized:

           HTML
               Requests content type text/html;

           JSON
               Requests content type application/json (JavaScript Object Notation, see
               www.json.org[16] and RFC 4627[17]);

           PHP
               Used by the dacs_list_jurisdictions(8)[10] web service when its output is to
               processed by PHP;

           PLAIN
               Requests content type text/plain;

           TEXT
               Like PLAIN except that no content type is specified;

           XML
               Requests content type text/xml. If the DTD_BASE_URL directive is configured, a
               DOCTYPE element with the keyword SYSTEM followed by a value derived from
               DTD_BASE_URL is emitted; e.g.,

                   <!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "http://fedroot.com/dacs/dtd-xsd/foo.dtd">

               If DTD_BASE_URL is not configured, an internal DTD is emitted. A default xmlns
               attribute is emitted in both cases;

           XMLDTD
               Requests content type text/xml This emits an internal DTD and default xmlns
               attribute;

           XMLSCHEMA
               Requests content type text/xml. If the XSD_BASE_URL directive is configured,
               xmlns:xsi and xsi:schemaLocation attributes are emitted, the former having a
               compile-time value (e.g., "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance") and the
               latter being a pair, the first having the same value as the value of the xmlns
               attribute and the second having a value derived from XSD_BASE_URL; e.g.,

                   <foo xmlns="http://fedroot.com/dacs/v1.4"
                       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                       xsi:schemaLocation="http://fedroot.com/dacs/v1.4
                       http://amd.dss.bc.ca/dacs/dtd-xsd/foo.xsd">

               The default xmlns attribute is also emitted. If XSD_BASE_URL is not configured,
               only the default xmlns attribute is emitted; and

           XMLSIMPLE
               Requests content type text/xml Neither a DTD (no DOCTYPE) nor a default xmlns
               attribute is emitted.

           Also see the -format[18] command line flag (one of the dacsoptions[1]).

DIAGNOSTICS

       Programs usually exit 0 if everything was fine, 1 if an error occurred.

AUTHOR

       Distributed Systems Software (www.dss.ca[19])

COPYING

       Copyright2003-2012 Distributed Systems Software. See the LICENSE[20] file that accompanies
       the distribution for licensing information.

NOTES

        1. dacsoptions
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.1.html#dacsoptions

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

        3. dacs_admin(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_admin.8.html

        4. dacs_auth_agent(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_auth_agent.8.html

        5. dacs_auth_transfer(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_auth_transfer.8.html

        6. dacs_authenticate(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_authenticate.8.html

        7. dacs_conf(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_conf.8.html

        8. dacs_current_credentials(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_current_credentials.8.html

        9. dacs.groups(5)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.groups.5.html

       10. dacs_list_jurisdictions(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_list_jurisdictions.8.html

       11. dacs_notices(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_notices.8.html

       12. dacs_passwd(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_passwd.8.html

       13. dacs_signout(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_signout.8.html

       14. dacsversion(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_version.8.html

       15. dacs_vfs(8)
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs_vfs.8.html

       16. www.json.org
           http://www.json.org

       17. RFC 4627
           http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt

       18. -format
           http://dacs.dss.ca/man/dacs.1.html#format-arg

       19. www.dss.ca
           http://www.dss.ca

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