similar to: Need Login/Authorization/User Management Advice

Hi everyone, I have made an announcements few weeks ago about auth_generator. As we released few versions since, I send another one on the list. The auth_generator gives you an admin interface to handle users, can display user informations on static pages, allows you to choose what crypting algo you want to use (you can use a salt per account if you want for better security) and much more. You

Hello, I want to allow some users to manage other user accounts, but do not want them to manage the admin account. I have tried auth_generator, login_engine and user_engine I am having a hard time gettign this to work. Looking for advise and help. Thanks Frank -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I am a relative RubNub and attempting to implement auth_generator v.2.0.1. I am getting an "undefined method `login_required'' for #<ArticlesController:0xb732c0b4>" error when I attempt... http://localhost:3000/articles/new Help would be appreciated. My app/controllers/application.rb reads... ------------------------------------------------------------------------

I''m trying to get the login/user engine combo up and working and am having difficulties. I got the login engine up and running fine, no problems. Now, on to the user engine. After fixing the needed stuff in the bootstrap task so it loads I''m able to login as the default admin ok. BUT none of the views/controllers that are in login/user_controller are being overridden by the

Hi! I was trying to cleanup my app and I runned into quite a problem. My controllers in submodule do not seem to inherit things from base class. I have following setup: app/controllers/ application.rb: class ApplicationController admin/ admin_controller.rb: class Admin::AdminController < ApplicationController include LoginEngine include UserEngine

I am a the point now where I have to add user authentification to my application. Anyone can point me toward an easy to use / secure library? I know about ActiveRBAC and was wondering if there is anything else that I should consider. Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello all, Thank you for your help in advance.I am working with the auth_generator and see that the "roles" are domains. I am unsure how to add domains to the system and then control who is in what domain. Any help with this or an explanation of how domains work is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Sincerely, Robert Dempsey -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi! im trying to implement a role based authentication in my project, but im writing too many conditions, and i think thats not the right way to proceed. i have search in google, but there are a lot of plugins and "tutorials", and they are always not similar, so i dont understand them. please could someone help me? maybe with a easy authentication or with a good/nice tutorial?

hi guys, has anyone here implemented role based authorization from rails recipes into acts_as_authenticated ? how''s it going? Case: there is ONE admin. And MANY users. Admin is the only one who can create, edit, delete user, etc.. users also need to login, but go to different pages. do you guys think it''s good to try rick''s acts_as_authenticated + chad''s

Hi all, I am a system administrator new to Ruby and Rails. I have developed a simple web-based tallysheet program with the following tools: view: phpFormGenerator controller: Bash, Gawk, and other Linux utilities model: Flat file (Just playing with what i''ve learned about Rails) :-) Here''s a sample snapshot of the application:

I have a site in development where I only want specific users to access specific items that uses belongs_to and has_many. Say we have this kind of structure. Person <belongs_to + has_many> Items When person logged in they only have access to items that belongs to him/her. I''m using auth_generator but only seem to put an auth inside controllers and dont know how to go any

Hi All, I am trying to use the auth_generator package and am having problems with the GD requirements. So, while I realize this is tangental to rails, I am hoping someone may have some insight for me. I get the following error when trying to update my account info: MissingSourceFile in Account#info no such file to load -- GD RAILS_ROOT: script/../config/.. Application Trace | Framework

I''m having a difficult time looking @user[:domains] from auth_generator. Here is the output from debug: debug(@user[:domains]) will print out: --- TESTERS: "1" ADMIN: "1" But if I use @user[:domains][:TESTERS] it returns nil. How would I go about accessing the level of each of the domains? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''m trying to get the UserEngine running. I have installed the LoginEngine, added the essential lines to environment.rb / application.rb and application_helper.rb. Worked fine. Then I did the same with the UserEngine and when trying to set up the db: rake engine_migrate ENGINE=user I get: Migrating engine ''user_engine'' rake aborted! stack level too deep But...

Hi, I''m looking to create an online internet community for managing user profiles and other data. Thus, I would need that has the following features: o authentication - protect individual member pages/directories o session management o retrieve and reset passwords In short, I''m looking to create an online community. Thus, can someone direct me to a plugin(s) for

I am trying to get this enginer to work....and I am not sure how to install the engine? could someone please give me some instructions with regards to this.... http://rails-engines.org/wiki/pages/DateboxEngine for example in the website above The Engines plugin or the EdgeEngines plugin * Engines 1.0 script/plugin install http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_engines/branches/engines/ *

Hi team, I''m a very newbie RoR user from Spain and I''m developing a blog''s CMS. Why RoR?, coz I think it''s an amazing framework with many posibilities, portable and really powerful, with a young and optimist community, and taking my project I''ve prefered his structure in front of LAMP. Another thing is that I''ve liked to surprise my masters

I suspect there''s an easier version of this question that I could ask, but I''m not sure where I''m going wrong. I have LoginEngine and UserEngine setup and seemingly running fine. However, not all of my controllers are being found when I run "rake sync_permissions". Specifically, it''s the controllers that are not in the base controllers folder, but

Hello! I have a nasty problem with a loop when I enable quota_warning. The mailbox fills up with thousands of email within seconds. This happens only with mbox'es retrieved with POP3.

Does this work with rails 1.0 ? I saw that people said it failed with rails 14.1, which practically identical. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060125/5da24694/attachment.html