Canaille is a French word meaning rascal. It is roughly pronounced Can I?, as in Can I access your data? Canaille is a lightweight identity and authorization management software.
It aims to be very light, simple to install and simple to maintain. It is self-hosted and free and open source: your users' identity data stays on your own infrastructure, and every feature lives in the MIT-licensed core — no paywalled edition, no proprietary add-on.
Its main features are :
- User profile and groups management;
- Authentication, registration, email confirmation, "I forgot my password" emails;
- Authorization management with OpenID Connect identity;
- Provisioning with SCIM;
- SQLite, PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP support;
- Customizable, themable;
- The code is easy to read and easy to edit!
Try it!
Locally
Either run the development server
git clone https://gitlab.com/yaal/canaille.git && cd canaille
uv sync --all-extras --group devserver && uv run devserver
or run the Docker image
docker run -it -p 5000:5000 yaalcoop/canaille:latest
Read more about installation methods.
Online!
You have access to:
- a canaille server at https://demo.canaille.yaal.coop
- a dummy client at https://demo.client.yaal.coop
Authentication details are available on the demo pages. Data is reset every night at 02:00 CEST.
Documentation
- Please have a look on our documentation;
- To install canaille, follow the installation guide;
- To contribute to canaille, please read the contribution guide.
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