Joel, I apologize if I'm wrong here, but I'm not sure you understood the suggestion correctly. In Zope it is possible to give a user object a normal role for most of the site but give them a 'local' role for one particular part. I've created a few sites where people have local management roles and not one of the users has a role of Manager associated. This is accomplished by the API call: manage_addLocalRoles(userid, roles, [REQUEST]) Set local roles for a user This is taken from the excellent Zope Quick Reference (which sadly is slightly out of date, but still a good reference). So the basic logic is: 1. Create user 2. Create home folder 3. manage_addLocalRoles onto the new folder. and not a Manager in site ;) hth Phil phil.harris@zope.co.uk On Wednesday 28 February 2001 18:52, Joel Burton wrote:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Craig Dunigan wrote:
Okay, I'm still really new, but I have to start helping out sooner or later, so here goes.
Thanks for your suggestion!
I do something similar by assigning a local role of Manager to each user for his/her own folder. It may then be possible (more knowledgable people, come to my rescue here!) to create all of the user folders from a single account with a global role of Manager, since ownership is not an issue if the user has local Manager permissions?
That is possible, and would work well, I think, but if I could get it working, I think Owner would be better.
I was hoping to take the Owner route b/c I'd have to set up the local role of Mgr for *each* folder for each person (I don't want Jim to manage Jeff's folder), whereas with the Owner schema I can (should be able to?) simple assign for the enclosing /home folder that Owners have certain rights, and as the folders get created, they get those rights.
(Plus, part of the challenge would be that I don't *want* them to do many things that Managers can do--I'd have to create a new Role, 'ContentCreator' or somesuch, with certain permissions, and have them get that, not the Manager role.)