[Zope3-dev] Problem granting to principals

[Jim Fulton]

Roger Ineichen wrote:
> Hi jim
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jim Fulton [mailto:jim at zope.com] 
>>Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:03 PM
>>To: Garrett Smith
>>Cc: dev at projekt01.ch; zope3-dev (E-mail)
>>Subject: Re: [Zope3-dev] Problem granting to principals
>>
>>Garrett Smith wrote:
>>
>>>The problem was that I hadn't specified a principal factory 
>>
>>for the pau.
>>
>>>I'm not sure if this is still a bug, but in any case, the 
>>
>>grants page
>>
>>>should be more forgiving or informative. I'll add a low 
>>
>>priority issue
>>
>>>to that effect.
>>
>>Ah, I should have thought of that. Dang.
>>
>>At the very least, the searching machinery shouldn't return principals
>>if there isn't a factory that understand them.  I'll look at this.
>>
>>In general, the user experience of setting up a pluggable 
>>authentication
>>is pretty bad.  It badly needs to be improved.
>>
>>I have some ideas for improving the UI, if anyone's interested. :)
> 
> 
> Of corse, tell me what's todo...

Thanks!

We need a shorter name for pluggable authentication utilities,
at least when talking aming outselves.  I suggest "plugauth"

My suggestion is that we make plugauths folders that hold plugins.
They would grow a "Plugins" tab. Plugins would be set up to be
contained in pluauths and plugauths would only contain plugins.
Plugins would *still* be registered as utilities, but we could
provide a streamlined registration process.  For example,
adding a plugin with a certain name would register it with that name
*and* probably offer to configure it in the plugauth.  This would
make plugauths much more like Zope 2 PASs.

I'm sure you can think of other improvements to the actual UI.

In any case, I think we shouldn't do this until Stephan has
had a chance to merge is branch and until we've had a chance to
recover. ;)

Jim

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