Summary

• 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 web framework

There is also a development version.

Get Started

• Download and Installation
• Pylons Book (the two chapters on Authentication and Authorization and Advanced AuthKit form the AuthKit 0.4 documentation)
• Module Reference
• Trac - Tickets, Wiki, Subversion
• Examples

Author

James Gardner james at pythonweb dot org

Development sponsored by 3aims and Prometheus Research.