[Zope3-dev] Re: PAS vs pluggableauth

[Florent Guillaume]

> The problem for my users is that there also is "group" concept in Plone.
> 
> For end users it is not natural to think of "groups" as a way of 
> handling permissions. Groups in that sense is really to complicated for 
> most end users. Workflows are a much bette tool.
> 
> End users will naturally tend to think of groups as "collaborative 
> spaces" where a group of members can share content and work together.
> 
> And it confuses the end users that there is both something called 
> "Groups" and "Workgroups" on their system.
> 
> If groups were called something in the line of "PermissionGroup" it 
> would be much easier to explain the difference to end users.

FWIW we had the same vocabulary problem in CPS 3, where people used to
use the terms "group" or "workgroup" in a fuzzy manner. We ended up
mandating the terms "user-group" and "workspace" to clear up any
confusion.

Florent

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