authentication plugin

This plugin provide the infrastructure for implementing a pluggable authentication system. This plugin only provides support for the lower-level model functionality to carry out various authentication actions. Higher level functions that the user interacts with (login pages, forgot my password, etc.) should be implemented by the application or a plugin like the login plugin which is designed for this purpose.

See the Authentication module for overview info

Installation

Standard Method

    ruby ./script/plugin install http://authentication.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk
    mv vendor/plugins/trunk vendor/plugins/authentication

Piston Method

    piston import http://authentication.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk vendor/plugins/authentication

NOTICE

Since this plugin does not yet contain many modules that it hopes to one day (POP3, etc.) the internal API is not set in stone. I wanted to leave a place for plugging in other authentication systems but do not yet actually have any need for any besides a salted hash and basic tokens. This means as the others are added the internals will probably change to account for the variety.

NOTICE

Since nobody uses all aspects of this program different people are maintaining different parts. If you have any questions about a specific authentication module contact correct person:

Bart Duchesne <bduc@dyndaco.com> - LDAP and Radius auth modules