[Zope3-dev] Make principals display userinfo about themselves

[Martijn Faassen]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 September 2004 08:35, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>>>You do not need to access or even should access the current principal via
>>>this path. The authenticated principal is stored in the request and the
>>>participation. You can simply register templates as resources that use
>>>the request to extract all user information. See my previous mail on how
>>>to store data on a principal.
>>
>>What if you want to show information on a different user than the one
>>currently logged in?
> 
> 
> Then you have to give a user the permission to access the software space path 
> stated before.

That's ugly.

> If you develop an app that makes user content a central 
> feature (i.e. all documents of a user are stored in a user folder and not in 
> a public hierarchy), then I think you should develop a system that assigns a 
> user a folder in software space.

Okay, so that's the answer to the original poster's question. :) I think 
it's broader than just per-user documents; I think it applies to just 
user information like 'Full name', 'email address', etc. You don't want 
people to have to go into software space for that.

Regards,

Martijn