Polybase

Self-hosted user database with LDAP authentication.

Components

• polybase/: CLI frontend
• polybased/: Web interface (Go + HTMX)
• internal/: Core backend logic with tests

Usage

To develop or to build polybase, you must have Go 1.24+ and Bun installed. We are using just as a command runner.

Build:

just build

Publish:

just publish

Development:

just dev            # basic backend
just dev-ldap       # ldap
just dev-frontend   # frontend
just dev-rw         # test high packet loss
just dev-hivemind   # if you have hivemind installed (start dev, dev-ldap, dev-frontend and dev-air)
just migrate  # initialize database
just clean    # remove artifacts

LDAP Development

We use GLAuth as a development LDAP server. Start it with:

glauth -c glauth.cfg

Test accounts are:

• paul:paul*
• ionys:ionys*
• lydia:lydia*

Icons

Icons are selected from the Tabler icon set, a MIT-licensed icon set.