Hi, Here I am banging my head on the wall once again. Zope treats me so cruelly, it entices me with goodies but just when the plum is in my hand...it vanishes. I'm now trying to use GenericUserFolder to do a complex authentication procedure on a "members" page. I've wrapped GUF.userAuthenticate around an external method that resides in the acl_users folder, but Zope refuses to acknowledge the existence of the method. The GUF SQL How-To talks about using ZSQL methods, can I not use external methods inside the GUF hook functions? Thank you for your patience in dealing with this troubled newbie. ------------------------------------------------------ Andres Corrada-Emmanuel Email: andres@corrada.com Owner http://www.corrada.com/mamey Mamey Phone: (413) 587-9595 ------------------------------------------------------