Below is a post from a user who needs very
similar things I do. I feel I am exactly in the same boat he
is. I want to use Zope to develop an Intranet. Our network is Win
2000 based and it's easy to develop with IIS/ASP and then integrate the
authentication of your windows users. Since I found Zope, I
have fallen in love with it. It's just way to cool!
BUT... I cant get the authentication to work with anything but the built
in user folders.
Right now, my users can simply open a link on our
Intranet sites, and my ASP scripts can determine who they are. I then can
use this username to insert into a database or other functions, like printing it
on the web page. With Zope, I have to maintain another set of users AND
they have to enter a username and password to do the same thing I can do in
IIS/ASP.
I have tried the same things Sean has. I can
see the users, but the authentication wont work. I have tried setting up
pcgi through IIS, and letting IIS authenticate me. This would be wonderful
if it worked. I can see the initial index_html under the server
root. But anything else cannot be retrieved.
So, if anyone has any help or could point me(and
Sean) in the right direction, please do so!
I appreciate any you may have. Thanks!
Greg
POST from Sean Kelley below
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Hi,
I have posted a few messages about windows
domain level security and zope.
I have gotten maybe one no-so-helpful
response. I don't know if people
don't know or I am forming my question
wrong. Here goes another try.
background:
I am somewhat familiar
with basic zope use and canned product installs with
good docs but no guru
and not familiar with python
I want to:
build a zope intranet
which checks to see what windows group someone
belongs to before they can do
certain things- aka only my department users
can view and add stuff.
be able to allow my department users to use intranet without joining
(CMF
requires one to join for some things) while blocking other departments-
this
can be differentiated with windows group memberships
What I have
done so far:
installed jcNTUserFolder-0.2.2
but all I could list was the
users on local machine that Zope was installed
on (not the domain users or
groups)
I also tried another product which worked with jcNTUserFolder and
that
claimed to get NT groups also but it broke my basic zope security
because it
was replacing files at the root zope level (I guess it hacked the
main zope
security files)
I am running:
windows 2000 (with some NT
users)
zope 2.5.1
CMF 1.3b (i may chuck this though if I cannot get the
authentication to work
well)
Any help would be GREATLY
appreciated. Products, how-tos, code examples...
Sean