Hi, Now that there are lots of web sites dedicated to Zope and its community, for example : zope.org zopezen.org zopenewbies.net zopelabs.com zopera.org zopegurus.de etc... I've noticed that most of them, if not all, invite the user to open an account before being able to do something useful (post a news message, a document of some sort, etc...) Considering that most Zope users are interested in most of these sites, except when the language is not english, and that some want to really participate, I think this registration process quickly becomes very boring, and remembering all the different passwords is difficult, unless you always use the same which is insecure. Couldn't it be possible that all these servers share the same authentication mechanism, i.e. only usernames and passwords, and do all their local stuff on their own (roles, possible actions, homepages, etc...), in one word (ok, two) : Centralized Authentication For example I suppose it would be possible, if every webmaster agrees, to use the very same LDAP directory, which might be replicated for redundancy reasons, to check username+pw when an user tries to authenticate. This would have the great benefit of checking not if someone is part of myownlittlezopecommunity.org but the WHOLE Zope community, this would also better solder this sparse community IMHO. Of course I understand there are strong security drawbacks to this approach, but anyway this might be very good to make a real network of web sites strongly related to Zope, and could only strenghten the Zope community presence on the web. <mode thispostshouldalsoincludeanMSrant="ON"> I know it's not better than what Mickey$oft plans to do, but while I trust the Zope Community (and ZC) I really don't trust the above named monopolist. </mode> Any comment or flame ? thank you for reading, anyway Jerome Alet