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    <bookinfo>
	<title>The Auth Module</title>
	<authorgroup>
	    <author>
		<firstname>Jan</firstname>
		<surname>Janak</surname>
		<affiliation><orgname>FhG Fokus</orgname></affiliation>
		<email>jan@iptel.org</email>
	    </author>
	    <author>
		<firstname>Juha</firstname>
		<surname>Heinanen</surname>
		<affiliation><orgname>TutPro Inc</orgname></affiliation>
		<email>jh@song.fi</email>
	    </author>
	    <author>
		<firstname>Daniel-Constantin</firstname>
		<surname>Mierla</surname>
		<affiliation><orgname>asipto.com</orgname></affiliation>
		<email>miconda@gmail.com</email>
	    </author>
	</authorgroup>

	<copyright>
	    <year>2002</year>
	    <year>2003</year>
	    <holder>FhG FOKUS</holder>
	</copyright>

    </bookinfo>
    <toc></toc>


    <chapter>
	<title>Admin Guide</title>
    <section id="auth.overview">
	<title>Overview</title>
	<para>
	    This is a generic module that itself doesn't provide all functions
	    necessary for authentication but provides functions that are needed
	    by all other authentication related modules (so called
	    authentication backends).
	</para>
	<para>
	    We decided to divide the authentication code into several modules
	    because there are now more than one backends (currently database
	    authentication and radius are supported). This allows us to create
	    separate packages so users can install and load only the required
	    functionality. This also allows us to avoid unnecessary
	    dependencies in the binary packages.
	</para>
    </section>

    <section id="auth.dep">
	<title>Dependencies</title>
	<para>
	    The module does not depend on any other module.
	</para>
    </section>
    
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