[Zope] adding instance w/o management access

Michel Pelletier michel@digicool.com
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:53:38 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Wilson [mailto:wilson@visi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 12:38 PM
> To: Michel Pelletier
> Cc: Zope listserv
> Subject: RE: [Zope] adding instance w/o management access
> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Michel Pelletier wrote:
> 
> > Give your factory method a 'proxy role' of manager.  This 
> way, someone
> > with non-manager privledges can do things like add instances only if
> > they call your method the way you want them to.
> 
> What I ended up doing is to set the permissions on my factory 
> so that 'Use
> factories' is mapped to 'Add News Articles' (my ZClass). That 
> seemed to
> work. Is this a bad solution?

Nope, keep in mind that whomever can add news articles can use *any*
factory.

-Michel