In short, identity is accomplished with a decorator and a provider to the database. Here is some documentaion:
http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/UsingIdentity?action=show&redirect=1.0%2FIdentityDecorator So, how would you like to contribute at the sprints tomorrow? I think Auth is going to be taken care of by Kevin. -chris On Feb 22, 3:33 pm, Devin Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 22 February 2008 15:58:04 Kevin Horn wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Devin Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > I can't believe we're having this discussion on this mailing list. Use > > > AuthKit. If you're having problems understanding it contact me and > > > I'll try to help you, but we don't need to be reimplementing the wheel > > > here. Pylons has already chosen the best of breed packages for you, if > > > you have a problem with one of them then improve it.You said "it needs > > > a bit of continuing love to make it into all it could be." Well? Give > > > it that bit of continuing love! > > > > I just don't understand why we're trying to replace Pylons. We chose > > > it, now build on top of it and improve it. > > > > -Devin > > > Personally, my problem with AuthKit was not that it was hard to understand, > > but that: > > 1) It couldn't do some things I wanted to do > > 2) It would have been more work to retrofit those features than to "roll my > > own"...and the result would not have looked anything like AuthKit. > > > So I decided to create a library that would handle what I wanted. When the > > topic came up on the TG-trunk mailing list, I mentioned my thoughts, people > > seemed interested, and so now I'm working on something that _may_ become > > the default for TG2. > > > AuthKit may be the "best of breed", but for me, it isn't good enough. I > > don't mean it's bad, just that it isn't what I want in an auth framework. > > > Of course, even if it does, nothing stops people from using AuthKit if it > > meets their needs. It should be as simple as some config file changes and > > changing a line or two in middleware.py > > > Kevin Horn > > Well let me know what these features are that everyone wants. > > I'm also not sure how TG1.x accomplished authentication (wasn't it just > forward authentication?), so if anyone could enlighten me on how TG1.x > authentication was performed I could probably provide a counter-example. > > -Devin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
