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Unified Rails Authentication & Authorization

My thought here is that there should be a plugin/lib that will unify all the different methods out there for authentication and authentication in rails. This should be flexible enough so that each authentication method is complete encapsulated and done in a plugin fashion. This will allow for special needs that are always there for authentication.

At this point - I would much rather use something that is already there, but after doing a quick search, nothing came up.

--Malcom 00:35, 16 July 2007 (EDT)

Key points:

• Default authentication would be local
• Provide a hierarchy of authentication - possibly allow for special rules
  • Domains?
• Plugin based system
  • Local auth
  • Open ID
  • LDAP/Active Directory ... etc.