I'm sorry, but "duh." I wasn't leveling any criticism, and I'm well aware that the two are separate.I must have made myself unclear. In any case, I'll take a look at Chris' tutorial. It's a bit old, can I expect it to work with recent nightlies?
On May 28, 1:13 pm, John David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 28, 2008, at 10:57 AM, 703designs wrote: > > > > > > > I'm working with Cake right now, and I thought that ACL was my answer > > to this question, but it seems that Cake's ACL (ACL in general, I > > suppose) only deals with roles, etc: > > > "It should be noted that ACL is *not* a system that is meant to > > authenticate users. You should already have a way to store user > > information and be able to verify that user's identity when they enter > > the system." > > > Well, this is all good and well, but the user authentication systems I > > develop, while being functional, leave quite a bit to be desired, and > > I really wouldn't trust them beyond the limited purposes for which > > I've deployed them. To put it simply, I expect that a framework like > > this one would make developing a sane user authentication system a bit > > easier for a developer like myself. > > ACL != Auth. It's *related* to authentication, but so is the > FormHelper. The criticism you're leveling here doesn't quite make sense. > > In any case, I might check out the AuthComponent (which works well > with the ACL stuff). Chris' tute should be a good starting point. > > -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
