[Zope] GUF: Generic User Folder

Pavlos Christoforou pavlos@gaaros.com
Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:23:43 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Hung Jung Lu wrote:

> 
> I know, I know. :) But how otherwise do I get you people
> to come out from hiding without posting a hack like that? :)
> 
> GUF has problems and we have to face it. If a product takes
> a few days to install, if a product locks newbies up and send
> them into panic attack, it has problems. Please just look
> up past postings in the mailing list... headers like "Bad...
> very bad" and "GenericUserFolder has locked me out" are
> just heartbreaking. :)
> 
> If I have time I'll find something better, or make something
> better. :)

I have not touched the authentication machinery yet so I must rely on
other Zopistas efforts. There is a LoginManager which is part of the PTK.
Seems to be well thought out, and it seems to provide a very general and
broad solution to the authentication problem, but I have no idea whether
or how it works.

Another useful add on is for GUF to ship  a complete example of its usage
based on standard Zope objects (Folders etc). Maybe as an exported
folder that the user can optionally import.