[Zope3-dev] a note on groups and roles

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:45:30PM +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote:
| I'm a bit a head of myself here, but here goes:
| 
| I have for Zope 2 made a product called "PluggableUserFolder" which I 
| personally have seen  as a "prestudy" for features I really would like 
| to see in Zope3.
| 
| Now, my efforts to get Zope 3 starting has completely failed so far, so 
| I have not yet had a chance to see if PluggableUserFolder really has any 
| impact on Zope3 or not.
| 
| But still, I think some of the concepts are interesting. Mainly in the 
| way it's modularized and pluggable, and also in the Groups handling (not 
| the SimpleGroups, mind you, they are just standard groups).
| 
| If you want to take a look, you can at 
| http://cvs.nuxeo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/PluggableUserFolder/

We have a PluggableAuthenticationService on Zope3 (someone help me to
find the docs), and its a snap to write a PrincipalSource. I don't
think that we have the concept of Groups in Zope3 though, but I guess
either SteveA or faassen can give us a clue.

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