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On 7/4/00, 1:22:04 PM, Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> wrote regarding [Zope-PTK] Roles, Groups, Security and Group Membership:
Monty Taylor wrote:
Am I making any sense at all? Does anyone see either a need for doing this or a way to do it? If it requires changes to PTK core, would anyone be interested in those, or should I throw them in my pile of dirty little secrets that no one should really know exist?
You're making perfect sense and I think it's a Zope problem partly, and also a PTK problem.
Good point. I think as ZEO becomes more prevelant and Zope wants to compete in the realm of big systems, group based interaction could serve to iron some things out.
The Zope problem is that Zope security has no idea about Groups. As in Users/Members exist There may have roles They may also be members of Groups. Groups may also be members of Groups. Groups may also have roles associated with THEM.
Other major security systems I can think of (LDAP, Unix, NT, Notes) all have this concept but Zope does not :(
Should this part of the discussion be moved to zope-dev?
Probably so. I've forwarded the original email there and I'm sending this one to zope-dev. Any comments from the zope-dev world? Monty