More Options
A complete application would support many more tasks around authentication. A few of the most notable include:
An interface for managing users and privileges
Letting users stay logged into their account on a given browser
Finer-grained permissions for different categories of users
Mechanisms that let users reset their passwords
Email address verification
Detailed account settings that let users set preferences
OpenID support
All of these things, however, are projects with details that vary
widely across different applications. The restful_authentication
plug-in supports some of these options, such as connecting
the password system to email, but most of this is work thatâs very
dependent on what precisely you want to build. The users model is a
model like any other: you can extend it, connect tables to it, and build
whatever system youâd like behind your application. The restful_authentication
plug-in gives you a
foundation, and you can build whatever you need on top of it.
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