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== Overview ==

The GuardPlugin is a CakePHP plugin to provide flexible authentication framework. With this plugin, developers are able to write their own authentication module easily and fast. The plugin also provides some build-in authentication module, such as Shibboleth and default (original). This plugin is build based on CakePHP 1.3 [http://api13.cakephp.org/class/auth-component AuthComponent] and it provides full back compatibly. If the application is developed on [http://api13.cakephp.org/class/auth-component AuthComponent], no change is required for the existing code. 

== Download ==

== Install ==

== Configuration ==

== Using Existing Authentication Modules ==

=== Default Module ===

=== Shibboleth Module ===

== Develop New Authentication Module ==