[Zope] etcUSERfolder

[Bill Anderson]

Hugo Ramos wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mindlace" <mindlace@imeme.net>
> To: "Hugo Ramos" <hramos@ruido-visual.pt>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 3:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] etcUSERfolder
> 
> > You need to have a file inside your zope root called etcUsers that has a
> > user file (it can be different for each etcUsers instance).  This file
> > has to have a colon delimited file that has username and password.  You
> > can hack zpassword.py to create this file if you need to.
> 
> Let's suppose i want to authorize users from a shadow file in a Linux box
> using etcUsersFolder !
> 
> Everything normal. but i don't want to use the etcUsersFolder (basic/cookie)
> authentication. I want to write my own authentication method with out
> Acquire permission settings from top of Zope root. I'm having lots of
> problems doing this...
> 
> How would you do that?


Set up a local radius sevrer, serving only the Zope machine. Then use
ZRadius.

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