ACL Technical Design (TD) To use Access Control in CakePHP we use itÅ› own AclComponent. http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/tutorials-and-examples/simple-acl-controlled-application/simple-acl-controlled-application.html http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/tutorials-and-examples/simple-acl-controlled-application/part-two.html CakePHP example, just telling how to populate and connect the CakePHP AclController. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6154285/aros-table-in-cakephp-is-still-including-users-even-after-bindnode If ACL on Role level add this small correction, to just only add Roles to CakePHP ACL tables and not to add the Users. http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/theshz/2006/11/28/user-permissions-and-cakephp-acl Calling the ACL from within a controller.