Re: Auth and Auth

2008-03-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Mike Orr wrote: AuthKit's author James Gardner says the architecture is sound, the outstanding bugs have been fixed, and the two substantial chapters in the Pylons Book space on the wiki have been audited for Pylons 0.9.6. Against this are 4-5 people on IRC and this list who have

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2008-03-29 Thread Christoph Haas
Fellow earthicans... I have still the writing of my Beginning Pylons article on my todo list somewhere in the upper third. :) However recent project work and my family kept me from really putting any work into it. However I had a lazier idea a while ago which was creating a couple of

Re: Auth and Auth

2008-03-29 Thread lasizoillo
My problems whith authkit: I can't say nothing about authkit docs. My english is very bad. I can't judge it. The code is clear ;-) AuthKit has many config options. This is a good think. In my work, the people is mad. Many options for flexibility are welcome. In SVN version, you have a

Re: Auth and Auth

2008-03-29 Thread Dalius Dobravolskas
Jorge Vargas wrote: this comes as a shock to me, I though authkit was defacto just like mako, SA,etc. I'm just starting to read up on authkit, and so far I though it only had outdated documentation, but the fact that noone has back it up as a good path in this thread makes me wonder if I'm

Re: Auth and Auth

2008-03-29 Thread Dalius Dobravolskas
Ian Bicking wrote: Some time ago I wrote this up as a proposal for the basic way authentication can work in WSGI: http://wsgi.org/wsgi/Specifications/simple_authentication I think most of the systems work pretty much like this, but I don't know for sure. Ian, that's exactly what I

Re: Auth and Auth

2008-03-29 Thread Dalius Dobravolskas
Wichert Akkerman wrote: There is an important lesson here: a very important, if not the most important, factor for adaption of a tool such as AuthKit is the quality of its documentation and how easy it is for complete newcomers to start using it. I don't agree here. AuthKit is good enough

Re: Auth and Auth

2008-03-29 Thread mdoudoroff
I lack the expertise to judge the relative merits of subtly different authentication/authorization strategies vis a vis Pylons. I do know, however, that, as a Pylons end user, I need a fundamentally sound and practical authentication/authorization mechanism, and it's the last thing I want to have

Re: Auth and Auth

2008-03-29 Thread Mike Orr
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, mdoudoroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, I can confirm that the AuthKit documentation situation is appalling. I spent hours sifting through the obsolete Pylons book chapters, their comments, the source code, and the cookbook documents before