[Zope3-dev] role (contextual) services?l

[Jim Fulton]

Roger Ineichen wrote:
> About grant permission, roles, principal
> 
> it's just a crazy idea.
> 
> What do you think about to let, 
> in a site, for each role, register a (adapter, menu, presentation ...)
> service?
> 
> This role (contextual) services can serv different 
> adaperts, views etc for different roles.
> 
> This way we could build role (contextual) sites
> which look different for each role. 
> 
> And a nice side effect could be, it could reduce
> the permission settings, because you know which role
> is accessing a view which is served from a role (contextual) 
> service.

As Stephan pointed out, we wouldn't want to link the component architecture
and the security policy this tightly, but you should get a similar
effect by choosing skins based on roles.  I think that this would be
a worthy experiment. It's not something I would want to pay attention
to for X3.0.

Jim


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