Re: [PHP-PEAR] RFC on merge of PHPLib and Pear

Quoting Björn Schotte <[email protected]>:

> But Auth is not a specific solution, Auth is very generic. And,
> another reason for placing these things in PEAR/ and not in
> PHPLib/ is that auth is such a basic thing for so many applications
> that it should be "PEAR Auth".

Can you use phplib's auth to authenticate someone by ip address? What about by 
username and password but only if they're coming from a certain ip address? The 
list goes on and on... it's not generic.

I'm building such a system, btw, but I don't want to force it on anyone.

-chuck

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