AuthKit is a Python module that provides functionality for WSGI (web) applications to use authentication and authorisation.

* Built for WSGI applications and middleware
* Sophisticated and extensible permissions system
* Built in support for HTTP basic, HTTP digest, form, cookie and OpenID
authentication methods plus others.
* Easily define users, passwords and roles
* Designed to be totally extensible so you can use the components to integrate
with a database, LDAP connection or your own custom system.
* Plays nicely with the Pylons web framework.