Hi, I was looking at the code of the LDAPUserFolder and realized that it inherits from Object Manager. I'm just wondering if this is necesary. Does an user folder have to store some temporal data of a user while he's connected? or is it enough with the cookies used by zope? The reason of my question is that I want to implement a very simple user folder that directly authenticates a user against a LDAP server without searching his DN on the database. In my case, I know that all the DNs of the users of my system are the same except by the username and password, so I could do something like: import ldap LDAPSERVER=ldap.initialize(LDAPServerUrl+':'+serverPort) LDAPSERVER.bind_s('cn='+userId+baseDN,userPassword,ldap.AUTH_SIMPLE) I tested that code and it worked fine. My problem with the LDAPUserFolder is that if the server doesn't support anonymous connections, I'll need a bind password and username because this product searches the user's DN and then sends it with the user's password. The people from technical doesn't agree much with this approach. For they would be better if I did directly without such information. Thanks in advanced, Josef