[OzZope] Re: [Zope] ownership fun and games.

[Ed Leafe]

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 08:23  AM, Stuart Bishop wrote:

>> It would be much better if the user folder allowed to disable the 
>> user (something random could be eventually guessed, besides you'd 
>> have an indication that the user is inactive/old/obsolete/whatever).
>>
>> BTW: there are other cases that make removing old users impractical 
>> besides permission problems (think about workflow history, cmf 
>> metadata, etc.)
>
> And if they are relying on the user object to remain around for ever,
> they are broken IMHO. Consider the user folder that is populated
> from an external source such as a company's LDAP server.

	Typically, a deleted user is either assigned to the administrator, or 
the admin is given the option of re-assigning those items to a 
different user. Either way, ownership is not broken, and a log can be 
preserved of this re-assignment for cases where such archiving is 
needed.

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