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Friend is an extensible authentication and authorization library for Clojure Ring web applications. It streamlines user authentication, supports multiple workflows, and integrates role-based security cleanly into request handling. Ring middlewares for configuring and defining the scopes of authentication and authorization. Macros to clearly demarcate the scope of authentication and authorization within code that is "below" the level of Ring handlers where you can't use middlewares. Enables...

...Doing this can almost eliminate the possibility of getting viruses, malware, or other junk on the computer. This comes at a price though since the Windows system doesn't have an "su" command like the Unix/Linux OS does*. Because of this, a user not logged in as the administrator will need to log out of the machine and then back in as the administrator to do upgrades, installs, etc. Admin Console removes this step, by creating a "workspace" that runs with alternate credentials. The console allows the user to create shortcuts to applications which will run with whatever credentials are supplied...