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

[Vincent Fretin]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
<janwijbrand at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 11/11/10 11:35 AM, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> > 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!
>
> I added a section on the PAU and SessionCredentials. Next up is how
> principals are created. But not now :)
>
> regards, jw
>

Hi,

This is a great doc jw!
Thanks for writing it.

Regards
Vincent Fretin
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