[Zope3-dev] Re: Roles and permissions and plugins

[Godefroid Chapelle]

Lennart Regebro wrote:

> After removing and rechecking in a binary file that was checked in as text I
> yesterday got Zope3 working on Windows. The earlier problems I had must have
> been a temporary glitch, cause there were no sign of them.
> 
> I was happy to find that much more than has been mentioned here is in fact
> pluggable in the security methods.
> For example, the identification mechanism obviously is pluggable, there is
> one for Basic HTTP Authentication and another for FTP authentication. I
> would like to try my hands on the security mechanism by making a Cookie
> adapter for this, it seems like a good and reasonably simple task. :-)
> 
> However, I fail to find any place where the above adapters are mentioned
> anywhere else in the code, so I fail to see how they actually are working
> and selected. This is probably because of my Zope3 newbie status, but if
> somebody could give me a hint on where to look I would be grateful.

I suppose (I could be wrong) that they are asembled the Zope3 way : 
through ZCML configuration
> 
> Otherwise I'll just keep digging. :-)
> 
> /Lennart


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