[Zope] zope access to external files

[Ricardo Anguiano]

Paul Winkler <pw_lists@slinkp.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:29:02AM -0800, Ricardo Anguiano wrote:
> >      http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/ExternalFile
> >      http://www.zope.org/Members/MacGregor/ExtFile
> >      http://sourceforge.net/projects/localfs
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 
> >      Can anyone recommend one of these products over the other?
> 
> they serve different needs...
> localfs will map a whole directory and all its subdirectories,
> ExtFile and ExternalFile will only do 1 file per instance.

Ah, good to know.

> 
> >      Will they let me do what I describe?
> 
> if the users are zope users, sure - just an a LocalFS for each user
> and restrict access to the owner.

Yes, the users are zope users.  I did exactly what you describe and it
works great.

> on the filesystem, everything must be readable by the user who runs
> the Zope process.

Definitely.

Thanks,
-- 
Ricardo Anguiano
http://www.codesourcery.com