``repoze.who`` -- WSGI Authentication Middleware / API
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Overview
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``repoze.who`` is an identification and authentication framework
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for arbitrary WSGI applications. ``repoze.who`` can be configured
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either as WSGI middleware or as an API for use by an application.
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``repoze.who`` is inspired by Zope 2's Pluggable Authentication
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Service (PAS) (but ``repoze.who`` is not dependent on Zope in any
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way; it is useful for any WSGI application). It provides no facility
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for authorization (ensuring whether a user can or cannot perform the
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operation implied by the request). This is considered to be the
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domain of the WSGI application.
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See the ``docs`` subdirectory of this package (also available at least
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provisionally at http://static.repoze.org/whodocs) for more
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information.
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