Vertically Challenged Wiki¶

What?¶

VerticallyChallenged is a plugin and database functionality available for repoze.who to handle AuthZ based on PostgreSQL's existing role system. By utilizing the Databases' role system instead of a custom, application-level roles implementation.

This helps to solidify data access rules, and helps to prevent applications from unexpected or unanticipated data modification or view events.

Usage¶

You can find slides of a presentation on Vertically Challenged here: https://public.commandprompt.com/attachments/download/200/Vertically_Challenged.pdf

Download¶

You can get Vertically Challenged from one of two locations. Firstly, you can check the code out from our Subversion repository at:

$ svn co https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/verticallychallenged/repo

Secondly, all of Command Prompt's public projects are now available on GitHub, and can be cloned via:

$ git clone git://github.com/commandprompt/Vertically-Challenged.git

We take all pull requests seriously, and will review every one. And if you're interested in contributing, please, join the mailing list, at:

• verticallychallenged@lists.commandprompt.com