[eluser]jacobkball[/eluser]
I've added my votes to codeigniter.uservoice.com - thanks to the link from your site, Phil.
It's clear that a built in authentication library has by far the largest number of votes, so it will be interesting to see how this goes.
I would argue that authentication and authorisation are pretty closely related, and it would make sense to tackle both at the same time. If not, feel free to educate me
At the end of the day, people want to be able to protect certain areas of their applications, and they want to allow certain people to do certain things, based on who they are (or what their role is).
