PAS

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The Pluggable Authentication Service (PAS) is a new framework from Zope Corp. for handling authentication in Zope 2. PAS is a Zope acl_users folder object that uses "plugins" that can implement various authentication interfaces that plug into the PAS framework. Zope 3 also uses a design inspired by PAS. PAS was integrated into Plone at the 2005 San Jose Sprint.