At 09:29 AM 3/4/2003, Ricardo Anguiano wrote:
1. I want to restrict file access by user.
2. I want to serve objects from zope to accomplish objective #1 above, but I want the objects to be in the filesystem.
You can do that with Zope, but reading between the lines a bit, these sound like static files you're serving. If so, I'd recommend putting Apache in front of Zope and letting Apache handle it with a RewriteRule like: RewriteRule ^/files/(.*) /home/httpd/mysite/files/$1 [L] It doesn't get much easier than that. ;-) Zope should (IMO) be used primarily for serving dynamic content. It's fantastic at what is does well, but it just doesn't hold a candle to Apache for serving static content... nor should it. They're two very different tasks.
I want to be able to say, "The contents of directory X are available only to user Y."
This isn't a great idea, for the most part. If you're looking for more than trivial security, I wouldn't volunteer information like that.
Cool domain name. :-) Dylan