Lua API | Nauthilus

📄️Introduction

Introduction to the Nauthilus builtin Lua support

Logging and status messages

Backend server monitoring related functions

Shared Lua context between environment sources, backend, subject sources and actions

HTTP request functions to deal with headers and body

HTTP response functions for setting headers, status and body from Lua

LDAP related functions

SMTP and LMTP related functions

nauthilus_misc Lua module providing utility functions

Password related functions

Prometheus functions for gauges, counter and histograms

TCP connection counting related functions

Common Redis related functions

Process-wide in-memory cache for Lua (store data across requests)

Historical neural-network page retained as a deprecation notice

Soft whitelisting related functions for Nauthilus environment controls

DNS lookup functions

Lua API for implementing custom authentication backends

Brute force prevention and toleration functions

Common utility functions

Lua helpers for encoding and decoding CBOR payloads

Lua API for emitting request-local policy attributes

Lua helpers for policy localization and deployment catalog overlays

Lua module nauthilus_opentelemetry — create spans, set attributes, use baggage and header propagation