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Does anyone know of any services that could be used to authenticate a user that would be a member of the general public? One of the projects we''re looking at here needs to have forms signed by parents of students. Since we simply can''t put every parent or guardian in our databse, we need a way to outsource the authentication. I''m wondering if there are any services that

I''ve been bringing up a good basica framework for applications at work. To give decent security I''ve been implementing the Rails Recipie for Authorization of function calls modeled on the book''s implementation. (Changes for our environment were added..but are minor.) Since I initially let Rails create the join table between two data tables with a HABTM relationship....I