The Candid server provides a macaroon-based authentication service.
The easiest way to start using the candid service is with the snap:
snap install candid --edge
The configuration file used by the snap can be found in
/var/snap/candid/common/config.yaml.
Candid requires go1.11 or later to build. This is available in the go snap:
snap install go
Go will additionally require installing the following packages in order that it can fetch and build candid dependencies:
apt install build-essential bzr git
Get the source from github.com/CanoniclaLtd/candid.
git clone git@github.com:CanonicalLtd/candid
It is recommended that you check out the source outside of any $GOPATH
($HOME/go by default). If you do wish to check out into a $GOPATH
then you will need to set the environment variable GO111MODULE=on.
The store/mgostore component additionally requires mongodb to be installed, this should be installed from the system packages:
apt install mongodb
The store/sqlstore component additionally requires a running
postgresql, this may be running on a different system. The posgresql
system to use is specified using the standard postgresql environment
variables.
To skip running postgresql tests set the environment variable
PGTESTDISABLE=1.
Tests are run by running make check in the root of the source tree. The
tests for a single package can be run by running go test in the
package directory.