Alt_Auth grows up

The alt_auth plugin is almost invariably the solution when you want to add users to your site by validating them against some other database. In 0.8 its had a major facelift, although some features will still be recognisable to those using the 0.7 version.

More on user classes

Its probably not obvious from the name, but there are two ways in which permissions can \'accumulate\' when using hierarchical user classes. Its important to understand the difference. The first way we shall call \'organisational\', because it mimics the typical structure of an organisation. You have the all-powerful being (CEO, Managing Director, God, or whoever) at the top, and beneath him or her a layer of managers, who have lesser managers beneath them...

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