PermissionsEX

I wrote an extensive guide on writing yaml in general several months ago (found here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1327397- ). Doing it yourself is infinitely more beneficial due to the fact that when something goes wrong, you may fix it yourself.

As far as a permissions plugin, I personally recommend bPermissions. You can find it here: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/bpermissions

its better to do yourself. its a MUST KNOW for every server admin. plus with the way pex is built you can do all the groups /permission nodes and everything ingame or from your console with a /pex command and wont have to worry about parsing properly because pex will set it all up for you. its nice sometimes with the way pex thinks. pretty much if the permission isnt there the permission doesnt exist (sometimes) ie factions/ residence lockette. just usually the plugins that come default with everyone being able to do everything and not admin only command or OP only

oh...goodie...perms. Yeah, i'll do it. Send me the following.

- List of plugins
- Desired Ranks
- What you want each rank to be able to do (i.e Mods /kick /mute) (admins /ban /ipban) etc.

You're gonna learn more if you do the tutorial on it.