My fellow Monks,

Perhaps there is an answer to this question and I'm just not finding it. I've searched both CPAN and the Perlmonks archives, but no such luck. I'm looking for interfaces for user and group management. Now, before you jump down my throat, hear me out. I'm not talking interfaces for specifically Windows, or specifically Unix. I think many of us have at one time or another written programs for multiple users, with various levels of access based on user credentials. However, there seems to be no simple, vanilla interface for this. I'm looking for something where I could write a plug-in module to backend it with MySQL or Oracle, or even /etc/passwd if I wanted to, but have it all invisible to the program. Authenticating a user's right to perform an action should be a simple, short process...authenticating whether X user has Y right, or X user is part of group Z which has Y right. Done. Any ideas? Am I missing something?

-Mike-

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