Casdoor CLI

A clean and straightforward command line interface for Casdoor.

⚠️ This is a student project. I will probably try to release a complete version in the near future as no Casdoor CLI is available yet. For now, this CLI is just a proof of concept.

• Casdoor CLI
  • Description
  • Usage
  • Features
  • How to install
    • MacOS
    • Linux
  • Configure
    • Casdoor configuration
    • Casdoor Cli
  • Test and development
    • Development backend
    • Configuration

Description

Currently, casdoor-cli provides a command line interface able to :

• Manage users in Casdoor (create, edit, delete)
• Manage users permissions within Casdoor using Casdoor's group feature. Built-in roles are the following :
  • lector : read access only
  • editor : can create users, but cannot edit users nor delete users
  • administrator : can create, delete, and edit users
• Manage users groups within Casdoor (create, edit, delete)

Currently, permissions management is handled using Casdoor's Group feature. Current code checks wether a user is in a group or not and adapt the permissions accordingly. This is due to how Casdoor works, as the api/add-user route only allows attaching a group to a user upon creation.

Usage

⚠️ Currently, casdoor-cli only supports MacOS and Linux. Tested versions are Debian 12 and MacOS Sonoma. Using WSL on Windows won't work as the CLI relies on GNOME's implementation of Secret Service dbus interface (GNOME Keyring) to store secrets.

Usage:
  casdoor [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  groups      Manage Casdoor permissions
  help        Help about any command
  login       Login to your Casdoor account
  logout      Logout from your Casdoor account
  users       Manage Casdoor users

Flags:
  -d, --debug   verbose logging
  -h, --help    help for casdoor

Features

• OAuth2 login via browser using Casdoor's API :

• Secure token storage using keyring interface :

• Fine tuned permissions management :

How to install

MacOS

make build TARGET_OS=darwin && make install TARGET_OS=darwin

Linux

make build TARGET_OS=linux && make install TARGET_OS=linux

You then need to add casdoor-cli to your PATH. Depending on your shell, you can do this in one of the following ways:

• bash : echo 'export PATH=\"$(PREFIX)/bin:\$$PATH\"' >> ~/.bashrc
• zsh : echo 'export PATH=\"$(PREFIX)/bin:\$$PATH\"' >> ~/.zshrc

Configure

Casdoor configuration

A init_data.json file is provided in order to bootstrap Casdoor's configuration so it can be used by casdoor-cli. Please refer to the official documentation to learn how to use it.

You may also create an application yourself inside Casdoor and fill up the configuration according to your needs.

Casdoor Cli

On first launch, casdoor-cli will ask you to provide the path to a config.yaml file in order to be able to request the Casdoor API. Required field are describe within the config.yaml.exemple file :

application_name:
casdoor_endpoint:
certificate:
client_id:
client_secret:
organization_name:
redirect_uri:

Information will then be stored in ~/.casdoor-cli/config.yaml, encoded in base64.

Test and development

Development backend

For local testing and development purposes, a docker-compose environment is provided :

docker compose up -d

Wait a few secondes before trying to log in as Casdoor container will reboot multiple times in order to initialize Casdoor's database.

Configuration

Create a config.yaml from the config.yaml.example at the root of the repo, with the following content :

application_name: casdoor-cli
casdoor_endpoint: http://localhost:8000
certificate: |
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  7A==
  -----END CERTIFICATE-----
client_id: ae8ae52c43d23fe00683
client_secret: 504df32f2134b3176df2c3eade455319706aeba1
organization_name: casdoor-cli
redirect_uri: http://localhost:9000/callback

You can then try to login using with user casdoor-cli-admin and password 123456:

go run main.go login

Or if you wish to use casdoor as a command :

make build TARGET_OS=(darwin|linux) && make install TARGET_OS=darwin
casdoor login