Yes! That's it. Getting user data from a (central) relational(or any other manageable) database! Jim Fulton wrote:
BScherer@mobile.bam.com wrote:
I would like to maintain my user information (uid, passwd, and access info) in an rdbms table. This would
If I understand you, all you need is a user folder that get's it's user
data from a relational database. You don't need to change Zope's security model. Right?
If you want, we can send it to you and you can test/debug it. Otherwise, we'll try to get it tested/ debugged ourselves and make it available in a week or two.
If you think a newbie can help test/debug, please send it me, too. At least you can test whether it is easy enough to use for a newbie. Newbies are valuable resources convertible to a user, right? We are renovating a history department web with Zope. We want support lecturors, their classes, small groups in those classes and finally many students. The main(at least now) problem is that we need a complex hierachy of permision system for MANY people who come, do a little contributing(uploading, editing, etc) and go. Furthermore, almost every one of them is a dino(local expression for is & feels like a computer/internet idiots). Hence Zope seems the solution. And if we can manage user hiearachy easily, Zope it the perfect solution. BTW, I mentioned previously of translating Zope into East Asian languages, though nobody interested in that project : ( It started but we decide to do it more academically, i.e. lazily. The departement head want the web site first, quite naturally. Anyway we are supposed to be historians.