Also got some basic role authentication working using acl_system. http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/02/20/new-plugin-acl_system It's pretty nice. It doesn't offer model based authentication tho....

Found model_security: http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ModelSecurity/Tutorial.html It's a generator that creates an authentication system including security at the model level. Very nice looking. ...

So, I started down the road of implementing model_security, and I eventually backed off. It seemed to reaaally slow down page times. And it was problematic with forms in partials. It's got some ...