Local User Database

[balupton]

Before Central User Database (#19) is implemented, we'll need a way for people to specify a local user database to authenticate (#21) users against.

Ideas:

• be a github oauth check against the maintainers attribute of the website's package.json file
• be documents within the docpad database (cc @dwynne)

[dwynne]

Given that we're likely to want git commit + push (#10) in the workflow it would be good to link users in our database to their github account in some form, so that commits can be made on behalf of the active user thus maintaining an accurate commit history.

Using documents within the docpad db as the primary source of users allows easy addition of additional metadata (twitter account etc) and for that data to be used elsewhere in your site (via collections). Think seeing a list of users, blog post author etc.