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authorChris McDonough <chrism@agendaless.com>2010-01-04 16:18:23 +0000
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@@ -22,11 +22,15 @@ Authorization is enabled by modifying your application to include a
authentication to a :mod:`repoze.bfg` application. In fact, unless
you have very specific requirements that include some sort of
"single sign on" or you need to integrate authorization across
- multiple non-BFG Python applications, you can safely ignore the
- existence of both :mod:`repoze.who` and :mod:`repoze.what`. These
- packages exist mostly to make it possible to add authentication and
- authorization to *other* web frameworks, such as Pylons; they are
- not generally useful within :mod:`repoze.bfg` applications.
+ multiple non-:mod:`repoze.bfg` Python applications, you can
+ probably safely ignore the existence of both :mod:`repoze.who` and
+ :mod:`repoze.what`. Those packages are useful when adding
+ authentication and authorization to a web framework such as Pylons
+ which has no built-in authentication or authorization machinery.
+ Because :mod:`repoze.bfg` already has facilities for authentication
+ and authorization built in, the use of :mod:`repoze.who` or
+ :mod:`repoze.what` is not required within :mod:`repoze.bfg`
+ applications.
.. index::
pair: enabling; authorization policy