Authake is (another) solution to manage users and groups and their rights in a CakePHP platform, as well as their registration, email confirmation and password changing requests. It’s composed by a component, a plugin, and a helper. For install instructions and feedback, please go to Authake home page: http://conseil-recherche-innovation.net/authake Hints: //add this to your config/database.php to make authake work. The idea behind this is that it would be possible to have 1 Authake instalation which handle multiple apps. var $authake = array( 'driver' => 'mysql', 'persistent' => false, 'host' => 'localhost', 'login' => '', //username for the db 'password' => '', //password for the db 'database' => 'authake', //or any other where you have imported the authake.sql file 'prefix' => '', );