[Zope3-dev] StandardAuthenticationService

[Matt Behrens]

> Matt Behrens wrote:

> > Please note that this is strictly focused on what the authentication
> > service should do, and has NOTHING to do with the whole
> > group/role/permission fuzziness discussion going on.  It only goes as
> > far as being a source for principals, which I *think* everyone
agrees on :-)
> 
> Well, that depends, an LDAP authentication service is gonna want to
provide
> group information, how would that information filter through to the
appropriate
> part of Zope 3?

Groups should be presented as principals by the authentication service
right alongside the users.  If the current interfaces don't support
that, they should.