AuthKit
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Summary
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*   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 <http://pylonshq.com>`_ web framework
    
There is also a `development version
<http://authkit.org/svn/AuthKit/trunk#egg=AuthKit-dev>`_.

Get Started
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* `Download and Installation <http://python.org/pypi/AuthKit/0.4.0>`_
* `Pylons Book <http://pylonsbook.com>`_ (the two chapters on *Authentication and
  Authorization* and *Advanced AuthKit* form the AuthKit 0.4 documentation)
* `Module Reference <http://authkit.org/docs/0.4/module-index.html>`_
* `AuthKit Cookbook <http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/authkitcookbook/Home>`_
* `Trac <http://authkit.org/trac>`_ - Tickets, Wiki, Subversion
* `Examples <http://authkit.org/trac/browser/AuthKit/trunk/examples>`_

Author
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`James Gardner <http://jimmyg.org/>`_ james at pythonweb dot org 

Development sponsored by `3aims <http://3aims.com/>`_ and
`Prometheus Research <http://www.prometheusresearch.com/>`_.