AuthKit 0.4.2

An authentication and authorization toolkit for WSGI applications and frameworks

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/>`_.


Changes
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0.4.2

* Applied most of #59 and tested the two OpenID examples
* Added support for WebOb HTTPExceptions to remove a deprecation warning in
Pylons 0.9.7
* Fixed a missing md5 import in the cookie module
* Applied patch in ticket #52

0.4.1

* Added ``setup.fakeuser`` option which automatically sets the REMOTE_USER
so that it appears someone has signed in. Useful with setup.enable = False
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* The ``setup.enable = false`` option now also disables authorisation *
* checks (reported by Rick Flosi) *
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* Applied patch from Pawel Niewiadomski to fix #53
* Changed the import of the openid.sreg module to openid.extensions.sreg
* Fixed the encoding of the form.py file
* Updated the examples to use the latest syntax
* Updated the tests for the new SQLAlchemy drivers
* Added Daniel Pronych's SQLAlchemy drivers but with significant changes
* Fixed a bug due to a change in the latest version of Python OpenID
so that AuthKit OpenID works with Yahoo sign-ins. Phil Kershaw #50
* Updated the user/database example, it now works #43
* Updated user tokens code to fix #17
* Updated authkit.authenticate.multi so that it should fix #41 and pass
the WSGI writable from start_response() correctly.
* Added a form.method option so you can choose GET authentication for
cases when another piece of middleware has already parsed the form
variables (eg with repoze?).
* Fixed bug in form action generation for non-standard ports
* Fixed bug reported by Sam Gentle where remote addr is obtained from
X_FORWARDED_FOR after multiple proxies.
* AuthKit form authentication now picks up HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST and
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PORT when generating an action. This allows you to run
an AuthKit app on port 80, proxied from 443 as long as you set up these
two (slightly unstandard) variables.
* Fixed #38, cookie sign out path should match the path specified in
the config file.
* Fixed #37, missing import of sys in digest authentication
* Updated SQLAlchemy code to use SQLAlchemyManager. Needs installing
manually with ``easy_install SQLAlchemyManager``.
* Added a user management api_version attribute and changed the API so that
the users object is set up on each request and recieves an environ
argument.
* OpenID middleware now no longer sets up beaker middleware itself. This
should now be done manually in the middleware stack. See the example in
examples/docs/open_id.py
* OpenID support now upgraded to use 2.0 (from Dalius Dobravolskas)
* Fixed encrypt typo with postgres users driver
* The cookie middleware now has a nouserincookie option which forces the
middleware to store the username in a Beaker session rather than in plain
text in the cookie. See examples/docs/form_no_user_in_cookie.py for an
example of its use.
* Form authentication method now defaults to 200 OK rather than 401 when
the sign in form is displayed so that it works with Safari 3 Beta.
* The cookie middleware Bad Ticket page now also uses 200 OK, also to
support Safari 3 Beta.
* The cookie middleware bad ticket now logs to debug rather than error to
avoid the ``No handlers could be found for logger
"authkit.authenticate.cookie"`` message you get with a bad cookie if no
error logging is specifically set up.
* Added a user management api_version attribute and changed the API so that
the users object is set up on each request and recieves an environ
argument.
* Fixed encrypt typo with postgres users driver
* Renamed the config_paste option to app_conf in authenticate middleware. If
you get an "No authkit.setup.method was specified" error when you are sure
it is specified, this might be why.

0.4.0

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

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