AuthKit

Documentation “borrowed” from the OP (original package) web sites and distros.

• AuthKit Manual
• 1   Credits
• 2   The Basics
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
• 3   The AuthKit Architecture
  • Authentication Middleware
  • Permission Objects
  • Authorization Objects
  • User Management API
  • Framework Adaptors
• 4   Authentication Middleware
  • 4.1   Configuration
  • 4.2   Advanced Configuration Options
    • authkit.enable
    • authkit.catch
    • authkit.exclude
  • 4.3   Authentication Methods
  • 4.4   Basic HTTP/1.0 Authentication
  • 4.5   Digest HTTP/1.1 Authentication
  • 4.6   Form-Based Authentication
  • 4.7   Forwarding
  • 4.8   OpenID Passurl
  • 4.9   Custom Middleware
  • 4.10   Cookie Options
• 5   Authorization
  • 5.1   Permission Objects
  • 5.2   Checking Permissions with Authorize Objects
  • 5.3   Using the User Management API
    • HasAuthKitRole([roles], all=False, error=None)
    • HasAuthKitGroup([groups], error=None)
  • 5.4   Manually Handling User Management
• 6   Further Reading
• Authenticaton and Authorization - Pylons integration
• 1   The Basics
• 2   Getting Started
• 3   Private Data
• 4   Using Pylons’ __before__ method and session functionality
• 5   Using AuthKit
  • 5.1   Authentication
  • 5.2   Authorization
  • 5.3   Using Permissions
• 6   User Management
  • 6.1   Managing Users From a Database, LDAP Connection, ZODB or elsewhere
• 7   More Complex Examples
• 8   Other Authentication and Authorization Systems
• 9   Known Issues
• authkit – AuthKit - authentication and authorisation facilities
  • Authorization objects for checking permissions
  • Permission objects
  • Authentication middleware
  • Objects representing users, their passwords, roles and groups
  • Pylons specific code to facilitate using AuthKit with Pylons
  • HTTP digest authentication middleware
  • Internal forward middleware for manual authentication handling
  • Form and cookie based authentication middleware
  • HTTP basic authentication middleware
  • Cookie handling based on paste.auth.auth_tkt but with some bug fixes and improvements
  • Middleware that can dynamically change the stack based on status or headers
  • Highly flexible OpenID based authentication middleware