would it be accurate to say that there are no plugins that allow for configuring the different auth backends via the admin interface ? i know there's a semi-chicken & egg problem here, but it is feasible to configure some aspects without needing disk access ... and no, i'm not talking about "useacls" or anything else the "config" plugin supports. i'm talking about things like $conf['auth']['xxx']['yyy'] = 'zzz'; -mike