# Authlogic administration

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authlogic-administration/176014>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 23, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authlogic-administration/176014 "2009-09-23T18:25:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![thebarge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@thebarge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thebarge)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authlogic-administration/176014/1 "2009-09-23T18:25:33Z")

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Whats the best way to use administration with authlogic?

I have a single admin role and a limited users role.  
The admin section is namespaced.

Is using a plugin like lockdown or declarative\_authorization a good idea  
or overkill for only having 2 seperate roles?

thanks

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**Author:** ![thebarge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@thebarge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thebarge)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/authlogic-administration/176014/2 "2009-09-23T20:03:53Z")

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the batman wrote:

> Whats the best way to use administration with authlogic?
> 
> I have a single admin role and a limited users role.  
> The admin section is namespaced.
> 
> Is using a plugin like lockdown or declarative\_authorization a good idea  
> or overkill for only having 2 seperate roles?

Authlogic explicitly does not handle authorization, just authentication.  
For authorization, I’ve been either using rails\_authorization or rolling  
my own. I think I’d recommend using a plugin.

> thanks

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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