Re: [rfc] permissions managment

> You´re right if you´re talking pure authentication - if there´s a good > package, which PEAR::Auth seems to be, there´s not very much reason for > a second one, except perhaps for taste. Exactly ;) > Regarding authorisation, I see room for at least two packages: A complex > one with all the options that LiveUser provides, and a very simple one, > like the PHPLib-style permission class. Lukas has plans for separating > the LiveUser package into three levels of complexity, which I guess I > don´t fully understand at this point. Who understands Lukas anyway ? ;))))) > Yes, that was proposed by Kristian Köhntopp, and I have also had some > talks with Björn Schotte about this topic, but there isn´t any code yet. > Many of the features for such a system that they have proposed are on > the todo-list for LiveUser, so that a SSO system will be possible with > LiveUser in the future. Ah, that's right, i remember now. The fact that there is no code yet is good thing. Undertaking such a project needs a fair amount of thinking. Arnaud.