Kapisi/roles/Password/README.md

Sora is the [LDAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAP)-enabled central credential store of the AniNIX -- end users will have accounts here.

# Etymology
A password is a ubiquitous method of asymmetric authentication. Militaries will use simple challenges & passwords to authenticate individuals b

# Relevant Files and Software
Most of the configuration initially is handled by the [https://aninix.net/foundation/ConfigPackages ConfigPackages'] Sora Makefile.

We use [file:///etc/openldap/users.d](a users.d) folder to hold the default user definitions. uidNumber should generally start from 10000 and the .ldif files should never be deleted to track the maximum uidNumber.

# Available Clients
Most services on AniNIX, ranging from SSH & IRC to web services like AniNIX/Foundation and AniNIX/Singularity, are LDAP clients. Our exceptions are below:
* MediaWiki (LDAP dropped out of support)
* AniNIX/Superintendent (client path not yet identified)

# Equivalents or Competition
Both Google and Facebook offer distributed authentication systems. Google in particular is a good equivalent, as some of the services used by this network rely on its authentication for various products it provides internally.

The AniNIX is not presently set up or planning to do distributed authentication.