[Catalyst] questions

[Joe Landman]

Hi folks:

   This is more of an update-my-understanding question.  I started 
playing with Catalyst about 9 months ago, and quickly moved development 
over to it.  Our last update was 5.61.

   What we are doing requires a number of simple things.  Handle logins 
and authentication against a database, restrict access to pages based 
upon roles/permissions in the database, as well as timed expiration of 
sessions, and storing session state on the server if possible.

   Catalyst had bits to do this some months ago, and we started working 
with them.  But it has evolved so rapidly since then that we are 
concerned we are not using up-to-date code/plugins/tech.

   Is there a set of currently suggest plugins, and sample code that we 
should be looking at?  Pointers/RTFM welcome with pointer to the FM or 
FD which are relevant for this. Thanks!

Joe