CAccounts

CAccounts is a software component and set of APIs designed for creating and managing user accounts within applications and services. It provides core identity management capabilities, including user provisioning, authentication, authorization, session management, and auditing. The system is intended to be used as a backend service or library and can operate with multiple data stores and security schemes.

Overview: CAccounts typically exposes a RESTful API for common account operations such as createUser, verifyCredentials, resetPassword, assignRole, and getSession. It supports password-based logins as well as modern authentication methods like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, and it can be extended with multi-factor authentication. The data model usually includes users, credentials, sessions, roles, permissions, and devices.

Architecture: The implementation generally comprises a user store (database), an authentication module that validates credentials and issues tokens, an authorization module that enforces access rules, and an auditing module that logs events. It emphasizes a modular design with pluggable backends for storage, hashing algorithms, and identity providers. Scalability features often include stateless tokens and support for distributed deployments.

Security and compliance: Best practices emphasize salted password hashing (e.g., bcrypt or Argon2), rate limiting, secure password reset workflows, and careful token lifecycle management. Logging and auditing are designed to protect sensitive data, with options for data retention controls and compliance with regulations such as GDPR or CCPA. The system commonly includes consent management and data export capabilities.

See also: Identity provider, Single sign-on, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, RBAC, ABAC.