[Zope-PAS] Re: Authentication and Users

[Rocky Burt]

By default, simple authentication success does not induce the necessary 
roles on the user (which you'll have to setup with another interface 
implementation).  You'll want (at a minimum) all users to get the Member 
role on a plone system.  At that point they should be able to create 
content where all Member's have permission to create content.

With regard to their own personal member folder being created, I would 
have expected that to get auto-created upon first login but to be honest 
I don't recall how that logic works.

- Rocky


Brian Ellin wrote:
> Tres put me on the right path, and now I've got a working OpenID
> authentication plugin.  Thanks Tres!
> 
> The goal of this plugin is to allow OpenID to users to participate in
> Zope/Plone sites without having to create a separate account on the
> site, and also have them be identified by their URL.
> 
> My question is: What is the relationship between a successful
> authentication and user objects on the server?  Say an OpenID user who
> has never logged in before logs in with their URL and authentication
> succeeds.  Is a user object automatically created?  Do i need query
> the database to see if one exists, and if not then create one
> manually?  If so, how do i do that?  Where can I read about this
> stuff?
> 
> The current state of my plugin is that a user may type in their
> identity URL and successfully authenticate.  I'm using plone to test
> the plugin, and once the user has "logged in" there is not much
> different from being anonymous.   Their user name shows up in the
> top-left of the screen, but thats pretty much the only difference. 
> I'd like the user to be able to add content, edit prefs, and leave
> comments by default just like a normal user, but without having to go
> through the join procedure.  I realize that this is getting into Plone
> specific territory, but i'm sure the user-object creation issue
> applies to any PAS auth plugin.
> 
> Any help or pointers to documentation would be a delight.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian Ellin


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