Summary

• Built for WSGI applications and middleware
• Sophisticated and extensible permissions system
• Built in support for HTTP basic, HTTP digest, form, cookie and OpenID authentication methods plus others
• Easily define users, passwords and roles
• Designed to be totally extensible so you can use the components to integrate with a database, LDAP connection or your own custom system
• Plays nicely with the Pylons web framework

There is also a development version.

Get Started

• Download and Installation
• Pylons Book (the two chapters on Authentication and Authorization and Advanced AuthKit form the AuthKit 0.4 documentation)
• Module Reference
• Trac - Tickets, Wiki, Subversion
• Examples

Author

James Gardner james at pythonweb dot org

Development sponsored by 3aims and Prometheus Research.

Changes

0.4 (svn)

* AS A RESULT OF THESE CHANGES THE DOCS ARE CURRENTLY OUT OF DATE *

• Added support for encrypted passwords
• Fixed the IE7 bug in digest middleware
• Adding SSO sub-directory, redirecting API, and CAS auth handler.
• Fixed binding check to return none, instead of throwing an Exception (for performance reasons).
• Moved start_response check outside of app_iter consumption since it must be called by this point to comply with WSGI.
• Fixed consumption app iter in multi, loading entire response into ram.
• Adding changelog
• Added IP and Time based permission objects
• Started unit tests
• Extended the user management API and added SQLAlchemy driver and example
• Restructured the authenticate middleware into induvidual pluggable components
• Simplified the configuration file system
• Added OpenID dependencies
• Removed the larger SQLAlchemy based demos
• The cookie module uses authkit as a default cookie name, not auth_tkt. Any code which does anything manually with this cookie needs the name changing if it wasn't explicitly set to auth_tkt in the config file.

0.3.0pre5

• Changed the arguments to the authkit.authenticate.middleware() factory. You will need to update your middleware setup to use app_conf instead of config_paste for the app_conf dictionary.

0.3

• Re-written from scratch to be a modular toolkit for building your own auth framework rather than an all-in-one solution.

0.2

• Re-written from scratch so to use SQLAlchemy only, old driver system considered unnecessary and limiting. Also doesn't fit in with current Pylons best-practice.

0.1

• Based on the web.auth 0.6 module from www.pythonweb.org, support for SQLObject driver included

License

Copyright (c) Copyright 2005-2007 James Gardner <james at pythonweb dot org>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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