== DESCRIPTION:
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Distributed Role-Based Access Control Service -- Restful authorization

The service is provided at http://preallowed.com

The source code for the service can be obtained at http://github.com/dmitryame/preallowed/tree/master , feel free to 
install and use the service on your local infrastructure if that's what you need.


== FEATURES:
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* Use Preallowed to implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for your applications.
* Preallowed is implemented as a RESTful web service, thus easiest to be accessed from any Ruby on Rails application via 
Active Resource. See examples at http://www.preallowed.com/home/help 
* The service can be access from any language that supports http API. We've tested it with Java, but other languages 
like C++, C#, Basic, Perl, etc... should work as well.
* The source code has complete test coverage. 


== INSTALL
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* Install rails 2.0.1 or later
* Obtain a source code from github http://github.com/dmitryame/preallowed/tree/master
* Copy ./config/database.yml.example to ./config/database.yml               
* Copy ./config/environment.rb.example to ./config/environment.rb  (the copied files from 2 last steps will not be 
versioned, so feel free to tune them up according to your needs)
* Run following commands
  rake db:create:all
  rake db:migrate
  ./scripts/populate_dev # you might have to give it exec permissions (chmod +x ./scripts/populate_dev)
* Run autotest or rake to make sure all the tests pass -- this is a good indication that the install was successful.


== POST INSTALL
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* You are ready to use the Preallowed service. 
* Configure your Subjects, Roles, Resources using the the web application interface.
* Configure your application to be able to access the service, see how to do it here http://www.preallowed.com/home/help 



== LICENSE

(The MIT License)

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==== Preallowed
Copyright (c) 2008 The Preallowed Development Team
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of 
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in 
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use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do 
so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all 
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, 
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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 
SOFTWARE.