RE: [cgiapp] RFC: CGI::Application::Plugin::Auth

["Tim Colson \(tcolson\)" <suppressed>]

> >     CGI::Application::Plugin::Auth adds the ability to authenticate
> >     users in your CGI::Application modules.
> 
> I wonder if this plugin shouldn't be called CAP::Authen, rather than
> just CAP::Auth. It validates that the user is who he says he is
> (authentication), but not whether or not they have access to 
> a given run mode (authorization).

+1 on the suggestion, -1 on the suggest name change;-)

Standard acronyms seem to be AuthC and AuthZ... FWIW, YMMV. ;-)
I'd be all good with the full verbose names -- no ambiguity. 

CGI::Application:Plugin:Authentication
CGI::Application:Plugin:Authorization



Timo


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