[Zope] Several levels of message privacy/read access?

[Dieter Maurer]

XavierVergésFarreró wrote at 2003-12-24 04:45 -0800:
>I'm new to zope. I have browsed the zope book and
>think that I like zope very much.
>
>I'd like to have something similar to a blog, where
>the different entries and comments can be hidden to
>different sets of users. This is for my kid's school,
>and here are some of the access possibilities that I
>think that could be useful for a given entry:
>-everyone can read it
>-only the creator can read it.
>-only teachers can read it.
>-only parents and teachers can read it.
>-only the kids and the teacher in a class can read it.
>
>There is an additional level of complexity: if this
>application proves to be useful, other schools in the
>neighborhood may use it, so probably the school should
>also play a role in the access rights. 
>
>Any hints of what could my starting points be? There
>are so many products that look nice that taking a
>first step is hard!

Look at Plone and its "Group User Folder".

Carefully read the security chapter in the Zope Book
(permissions, roles and users).

-- 
Dieter