Hi all, I'm getting better, but there's still quite a bit I don't understand about Zope, Apache, and Linux. Since I am running a system with the three of them, and the date that it will go into production is coming up, I thought I should try to figure out how I am going to handle user authentication. My primary experience with user's is that of using MySQL for that purpose, with users having a crypt-ed password. I have implemented this, but it is only particularily good for the system I have built on top of Zope (in this case, primarily a forum), and I would like ideas on how to unify my current system with the User Authentication facilities available through Zope, Apache, and Linux. I am not heavily invested in my current system, though having a MySQL-based system is quite useful in terms of doing joins against other things that I do need the database for. Probably one of the most difficult things is that I am not sure what I need the users to be able to do in each situation. But I'll try to give my best guess at these. In Linux, I need to be able to create users that can SSH in and install programs within their area of the system, as well as modify the configuration of any system-wide programs they are relying on(such as Apache or MySQL). In terms of Apache, there may be entire dynamic sites built outside of Zope (due to the skillsets of other developers), so I will need to provide user authentication for these sites (which I guess could be done through MySQL fairly simply, assuming we wanted to carry users between sites). In Zope, I am undecided. I want to allow non-programmers access to upload and create files, and change configuration to some extent, and while I am leaning towards creating something myself for this functionality, I get the feeling that with a better understanding of Zope, I could pull this off fairly easily, but as I do not yet have that understand, I plead that someone at least give me a shove in the right direction. Thanks for reading this whole thing, any comments at all are appreciated. Alec Munro