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CakePHP 1.2.* Auth Component Tutorial

There is an updated version of this post for CakePHP 1.3.*

There are a lot of tutorials out there on how to use the Auth component in CakePHP but everything that I've found so far has been lacking for my need - so I wrote my own. Recently I needed a way to set up a simple authentication mechanism I could use for customer websites in order for them to log in and manage their content. Since I use CakePHP for everything these days one of the simplest solutions was to utilize the built in authentication component which can be a little tricky to set up since the documentation is a little vague and scattered over the Internet.