I just trying to figure out if PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) + Zope is working. I am especially interested in the combination with LDAP. Anybody tried this already?

We are using SuSE email Server II, which uses LDAP-based authentication with PAM and also manages the users of the IMAP server via the LDAP directory. It was quite straightforward to use LDAPUserFolder with this. Just point to the right LDAP tree, and off you go! I guess it is much more complicated to get the other things (LDAP and PAM) running than to plug Zope in ... I don'T know anything about using unix-style password files with Zope, but LDAP is the better choice anyway. Cheers Joachim