On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:34 AM, karantan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been developing in pylons for about one year and half and since
> then i always wish that we had our own built-in auth system like
> django has it. (i know this will not happen).
> with every project i wrote my own auth system (because i do not like
> repoze - for simple projects it's an overkill and for big project you
> can  not modify it easily) so i was wondering if you could tell me
> where should i be careful for security wholes.
>
> at login post (if success) i put user_id in session and then i secure
> every action with decorator. that decorator checks if the user is
> signed in (if there is user_id in session) and if that user has
> permission for that action.
>
> because of its simplicity i fell that it needs a bit of security
> touch. if you look at repoze.who&what or any other auth lib there is a
> ton of code so there is got to be a reason for that.

The Pylons auth recipes are here.  There's three homegrown ones and
two articles about Repoze. They're similar to what you're doing, which
should be some reassurance.

http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Authentication+and+Authorization

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Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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