Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 9.1

Chapter 4. Security

liboauth-1.0.3

Introduction to liboauth

liboauth is a collection of POSIX-C functions implementing the OAuth Core RFC 5849 standard. Liboauth provides functions to escape and encode parameters according to OAuth specification and offers high-level functionality to sign requests or verify OAuth signatures as well as perform HTTP requests.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

liboauth Dependencies

Required

cURL-7.68.0

Optional

NSS-3.50 and Doxygen-1.8.17 (to build documentation)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/liboauth

Installation of liboauth

Apply a patch for the current version of openssl: 

patch -Np1 -i ../liboauth-1.0.3-openssl-1.1.0-3.patch

Install liboauth by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

If you wish to build the documentation (needs Doxygen-1.8.17), issue: 

make dox

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

If you have previously built the documentation, install it by running the following commands as the root user: 

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/liboauth-1.0.3 &&
cp -rv doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/liboauth-1.0.3

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-nss: Use this switch if you want to use Mozilla NSS instead of OpenSSL.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: liboauth.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/liboauth-1.0.3

Short Descriptions

liboauth.so

provides functions to escape and encode stings according to OAuth specifications and offers high-level functionality built on top to sign requests or verify signatures using either NSS or OpenSSL for calculating the hash/signatures.

Last updated on 2020-02-17 12:12:55 -0800