nx9-auth/README.md

nx9-auth

A lightweight Identity and Access Management (IAM) service.

Built with Rust, Axum, SQLite, and modern security practices, nx9-auth provides authentication, authorization, session management, personal access tokens, audit logging, and role-based access control in a single deployable binary.

Features

• User management
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Session authentication
• Personal Access Tokens (PAT)
• Audit logging
• Transaction-safe operations
• SQLite with WAL mode
• Online backups
• Interactive initialization
• Docker and CasaOS support
• Systemd deployment support
• XDG-compliant user mode
• Dioxus enterprise web UI (single binary, no Node.js)

Quick Start

Initialize a new installation:

nx9-auth init

Start the server:

nx9-auth serve

Verify health:

curl http://127.0.0.1:8655/health

Open the UI in a browser:

http://127.0.0.1:8655/

Authentication

Login is POST-only with a JSON body (never query parameters):

curl -sS -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8655/api/v1/auth/login \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"username":"admin","password":"your-password"}'

Passwords are verified with Argon2id and never logged or stored in plaintext. See docs/AUTHENTICATION.md for the full security model.

Web UI

The management UI is implemented in pure Rust with Dioxus (no React/Vue/Node). It is served from the same process as the REST API.

Build UI assets

./scripts/build-ui.sh

This compiles ui/ to WebAssembly and writes static files to ui/dist/. The server serves those files automatically (override path with NX9_AUTH_UI_DIST).

UI features

• Login / logout with session restoration
• Permission-aware sidebar and routing
• User, role, permission, token, application, and service-account management
• Audit log viewer with filters
• Profile and settings (theme: light / dark / system)
• Responsive enterprise shell (header, sidebar, breadcrumbs, toasts)

Frontend RBAC is presentation-only; the backend remains authoritative.

CLI Commands

nx9-auth init
nx9-auth serve
nx9-auth doctor

nx9-auth create-user
nx9-auth create-admin

nx9-auth create-token
nx9-auth revoke-token

nx9-auth show-user
nx9-auth show-token

nx9-auth backup

Deployment Modes

User Mode

Uses XDG directories:

~/.config/nx9-auth/
~/.local/share/nx9-auth/
~/.local/state/nx9-auth/

System Mode

/etc/nx9-auth/
/var/lib/nx9-auth/
/var/log/nx9-auth/

Docker

docker compose up -d

CasaOS

/DATA/AppData/nx9-auth
├── config
├── db
├── state
└── backups

Security

• Argon2id password hashing
• BLAKE3 token hashing
• Session revocation
• Transactional audit logging
• Timing attack mitigation
• Security regression test suite

Testing

cargo test --all

Current test coverage includes:

• Unit tests
• Integration tests
• Security tests
• Migration compatibility tests
• CLI tests

Roadmap

v0.1.x

• Stable IAM core
• BZOD integration

v0.2.x

• OAuth2 Authorization Server
• OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• PKCE support

License

Apache 2.0 or MIT -- Dual License