Elauthant

Elauthant stand as a Postgres extension designed to streamline authentication within your database instance without any biases.

Why?

In my previous projects, I've grappled with authentication tools like Firebase and Supabase. Despite their assurances, especially Supabase, they ended up complicating the authentication process rather than simplifying it. This frustration led me to create Elauthant. My sole aim is straightforward: authentication within my database, free from unnecessary complications.

How to run

Clone

Recursive clone is needed to ensure that entire vendor/postgres is completely downloaded:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/J0sueTM/elauthant.git

Configure

chmod +x configure
./configure

You can customize how configure generates the extension with the following ENVs and a couple of examples:

• ELAUTHANT_VERSION: 0.0.1, 1.3.4 (take a look at the tags)
• ELAUTHANT_TARGET: docker or host
• ELAUTHENT_EXT_DIR: /usr/share/postgresql/15.5/extension
• PG_VERSION: 15.5, 13.2
• PG_USER: admin
• PG_PASSWORD: my-strong-password
• PG_DB: my_db

An example configuration:

PG_USER=my_user PG_PASWORD=123456 ELAUTHENT_VERSION=0.0.01 ./configure

Compile

If you don't have the libpq previously installed, please compile PostgreSQL with:

cd vendor/postgres && make

Then, compile with:

make all

Install

Host

If you configured elauthant to run on host, all you need to do is install the extension:

make install

Docker

If, instead, you configured elauthant to run on a docker container, you can either use my pre-made docker-compose.yml, and extend to your liking, or create your own image based on our env.

docker-compose up -d db

In case you want to create your own image, remember to copy the files:

• elauthant--<your-version>.sql
• elauthant.control
• elauthant.[so|dylib|dll]

Made with <3 by Josué Teodoro teodoro.josue@pm.me