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How Roller authentication works

For a variety of reasons that I'll touch on later, Roller uses Spring Security, also known as Acegi, instead of standard Java EE Servlet Authentication to implement user authentication. To explain how Roller authentication works, I'll explain how we integrated Acegi into Roller and what each part of Acegi does for us. Here's what we added when we started using Acegi in Roller:

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