[Grok-dev] overview of how Grok handles authentication and autorization

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Hi,

During the Forest Sprint it became clear (as if we didn't know it alread 
:) ), that the authentication and authorization processes in Grok (ZTK) 
can quickly become confusing, epecially since quite some components 
interact.

The day before yesterday I was trying to explain a particular 
authentication-situation we had in our application to a collegue, and I 
got frustrated by __again__ having forgot how things work exactly.

I started an article as part of the community documentation to tries to 
explain how things work. It was very educating writing it - even if it 
is not finished yet at all. I hope it is somewhat educating for the 
readers as well...

I'm not sure where / when the community documentation will be available 
on the grok website, but you can read the source file here:

   http://bitbucket.org/jhsware/grok-doc/src/tip/source/auth/index.rst

Encouragements, suggestions, critiques, questions highly appreciated!

regards, jw