[Zope] small RFC : how to enhance zopistas' web experience

Jens Vagelpohl jens@zope.com
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:41:34 -0400


On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 08:38 , Stephan Goeldi wrote:

>>> Couldn't it be possible that all these servers share the same
>>> authentication mechanism, i.e. only usernames and passwords, and
>>> do all their local stuff on their own (roles, possible actions,
>>> homepages, etc...), in one word (ok, two) : Centralized Authentication
>
> A problem would be: if a user has advanced rights on site A and limited
> rights on site B. So there must be an automatism which first checks the
> local acl and then the global one.
>
> Another one: What if I would like to register on site A but not on site B?
>

he already explained that in his first email: only username and password 
are global. roles are managed locally only.

jens