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the component part of othAuth

changes:
0.5.4.5:
- Fixed a bug that was introduced by lately, missing /
- Fixed a bug ( not really bug but oh well ) preventing othAuth from recovering a session from the cookie data in some situations
0.5.4:
- Fixed a bug in loginAttempts reported by PatDaMilla
- Added support for parameters sent via url in a traditional way, mainly for redirects, thanks to Ritesh.
- Probably some other minor bugs

0.5.3:
- Added compatibility with 1.2 redirections
0.5.2:
- Fixed a bug in getData
- Fixed a bug related to the '/' route
- Added lazy model loading support
- Hmm..maybe something else..eh
0.5.1:
added a minor modification to _passAuthData

Helper part of othAuth
changes:
0.1.2:
- Fixed another bug in getData ( wasn't calling init())
- Added support for 1.2
- Added a function hasPermission by Brett ODonnell aka cornernote

0.1.1:
- Fixed a bug in getData
- uses the session helper now

the long awaited documentation of othAuth, this article covers the new version of othAuth 0.5

There has been a lot of questions about user authentication lately so I thought it was appropriate to create a tutorial that covered the very basics

In this tutorial we'll cover all aspects of MVC in an authentication role, logging a user in, maintaining a session, and restricting unauthorized access to controller actions.

Though this article is based on CakePHP 1.2.x, the same concepts apply in 1.1.x and most of the code can be reused.