| commit | author | age | ||
| 30b996 | 1 | ``repoze.who`` -- WSGI Authentication Middleware / API |
| TS | 2 | ====================================================== |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | Overview | |
| 5 | -------- | |
| fdbab9 | 6 | |
| 7141c7 | 7 | ``repoze.who`` is an identification and authentication framework |
| 30b996 | 8 | for arbitrary WSGI applications. ``repoze.who`` can be configured |
| TS | 9 | either as WSGI middleware or as an API for use by an application. |
| fdbab9 | 10 | |
| 7141c7 | 11 | ``repoze.who`` is inspired by Zope 2's Pluggable Authentication |
| TS | 12 | Service (PAS) (but ``repoze.who`` is not dependent on Zope in any |
| 25ac2e | 13 | way; it is useful for any WSGI application). It provides no facility |
| CM | 14 | for authorization (ensuring whether a user can or cannot perform the |
| 15 | operation implied by the request). This is considered to be the | |
| 16 | domain of the WSGI application. | |
| fdbab9 | 17 | |
| 25ac2e | 18 | See the ``docs`` subdirectory of this package (also available at least |
| CM | 19 | provisionally at http://static.repoze.org/whodocs) for more |
| 20 | information. | |
