You might get some ideas by taking a look at the Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication and Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization modules. In each category there is a basic module which provides the public interface and then a host of lower level modules which provide the actual code and interface with the various back-end stores and such. It's an elegant and flexible system, provided you get the API right (and you seem to have already given it some good thoughts).

For the role-based authorization, the access control list approach has real merit. It ties together some resource (actually a Catalyst action with a role) and provide for automatic "You are not allowed to access this page" replies.

So the first part of your project is already written (well at least within Catalyst's little world). Now if you could tie in your user-management to the Catalyst plugins and have it discover and service the actual back-end stores used, that would surely make it a winning module.

CountZero

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In reply to Re: RFC: Authentication/Authorization System by CountZero
in thread RFC: Authentication/Authorization System by eric256

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