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Apache Casbin: an authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 6 stories, 6 comments · first 2017-05-22 · latest 2025-12-27

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  1. Worth mentioning Casbin as well ( https://github.com/casbin/casbin ) - it's been around for a while and takes a slightly different approach. Instead of being purely Zanzibar-inspired, it uses a PERM (Policy, Effect, Request, Matchers)…
    comment by hsluoyz · 2025-12-27 · in Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale
  2. …are one of the main developers behind the tool instead of making it sound like you are unrelated: https://github.com/casbin/casbin/graphs/contributors https://github.com/casdoor/casdoor/graphs/contributors
    comment by lmz · 2023-06-19 · in Keycloak – Open-source identity and access management interview
  3. https://github.com/casbin/casbin
    comment by sahilarora535 · 2020-04-12 · in An authentication and authorization system based on RBAC for restful APIs
  4. A pretty simple, and configurable one: https://github.com/casbin/casbin
    comment by MrSaints · 2019-06-09 · in Zanzibar: Consistent, Global Authorization System
  5. imho github.com/casbin/casbin is the go to solution when it comes to authorization, it supports ACL, RBAC, ABAC, it's optimized for performance, it's pretty language agnostic, backed by tencent
    comment by 21stio · 2018-12-27 · in Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization?
  6. …use either the voter pattern https://symfony.com/doc/current/security/voters.html in simple cases or casbin github.com/casbin/casbin . For background jobs I used https://github.com/gocraft/work and https://github.com/gocelery/gocelery ,…
    comment by nostalgeek · 2018-07-14 · in Ask HN: What is the current state of web frameworks in Golang?