Greetings All, Some stats on my (stale, and soon to be updated) setup: Zope Version (Zope 2.4.1 (binary release, python 2.1, linux2-x86), python 2.1.0, linux2) Python Version 2.1 (#2, Jun 22 2001, 10:20:42) [GCC 2.7.2.3] System Platform linux2 I have a couple of objectives: 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. I want to be able to say, "The contents of directory X are available only to user Y." I looked through the list of products in the "External Access" category and there were a couple of good candidates. The localfs listing was hard to find but it did turn up in a faq somewhere. http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/ExternalFile http://www.zope.org/Members/MacGregor/ExtFile http://sourceforge.net/projects/localfs Questions: Can anyone recommend one of these products over the other? Will they let me do what I describe? Are there products which are a better fit? Is there an easier/better way? My apologies if this has been answered in the mailing list recently. An archives search did not turn up anything. Thanks in advance, -- Ricardo Anguiano http://www.codesourcery.com