Hello Fellow Monks

Currently the application I am supporting has a simple user management solution, a user gets given a rank from 1-5 where all facilities are available to *super users* with rank 5, a lesser amount of facilities to *admin users* with rank 4 and so on and so on.

The problem which is starting to emerge is there application is used by different *groups*, and this current situation group a, with rank of 4 can change group b's settings.

In the future, I forsee it getting it even more complicated, as there may be multiple new companies, each having multiple groups and multiple users

Now I could start looking at enhancing the simple system to allow groups, however I think I am getting to the point where its obvious there’s a wheel somewhere which I don’t want to re-invent, so has anyone any suggestions of a good alternative to meet my needs ? must be able to support users/groups, users with different privileges, be able to access via a perl application to authenticate, be facilities to manage users ?.... I know its out there, I just am blinded to where

In reply to User Management by ropey

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