SSRL's installation of the DCS project allows each user to collect data into their own accounts without requiring staff or users to restarting any of the distributed software components. This feature requires that the distributed components are capable of authenticating a particular user.
Additionally, web-related projects are under development and also require authentication. For this, and other reasons, we have developed a http based protocol for authentication that relies heavily on our web server infrastructure. Dcss has migrated to this style of authentication and so relies on an external program to authenticate users.
In the interest of keeping things simple for external collaborators, we have developed a simple program called MyAuthServer, which adheres to the same protocol and will authenticate users for all DCS applications without any code changes to these applications. Configuration of this program is included in this documentation.
Currently, the MyAuthServer does not except a secure SSL connection, so this implimentation should be used on a private network or local to a single machine for security reasons.