Hi all. I want to apologize up front because I have seen a lot of previous questions about logging in using LoginManager, CookieCrumbler, etc., but I'm not sure if they do what I need and I don't really understand some of what I read. It seems to me that a user can log on by a form and be authenticated by LoginManager, for example. But that only gives them a role (I believe), let's say authorized_user. But, what I need is a way to remember WHO they are, not just what role they have. I'm very new to both Zope and web design in general, so any help would be appreciated. A large part of my problem right now is that I don't even know what questions to ask. My general situation is this: 1. I'm going to be storing user information in a database. 2. I have to be able to let the appropriate user securely access that information, which means I'll need a user id or something like that to pull the data out of the database. I talked to someone with some experience in web development who uses ColdFusion and he said that he gets the correct information from the user database to authenticate, and then sets a session variable user_id (from the database) which he can use to access the database. I apologize again for the indirect approach of this question. I just want to know if there is some standard way to handle this. If someone can point me in the right direction (i.e. "research this and that") I'm more than willing to go off and do the research. What I've seen so far is the possibility of using something like LoginManager with CoreSessionTracking, but I'm not sure if that's what I need. Thanks in advance, Jeremiah _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp