AW: [Zope] Authentication against Win2000 Active Directory

Dirk Datzert dirk.datzert@tks-rasselstein.thyssenkrupp.com
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:50:28 +0200


Hi Fiorent,

> LDAPUserFolder has something that it calls "groups" but that everybody
> else in Zope calls "roles" :-)
> 

I understand that.

> User groups are a different matter (see the NuxUserGroups page for use
> cases).

I read the use case.

> 
I really think that LDAPUserFolder has this support built in:

A LDAP User belongs to one or more LDAP Groups.
Each LDAP Group can be mapped to a special Zope Role.

This feature is in LDAPUserFolder and LDAPRoleTwiddler.

Dirk