I can personally recommend LocalFS. We do exactly what you want to do, using a combination of LocalFS and local roles. All the LocalFS objects are in one folder. The index to that folder checks if a user has the appropriate local role, and only the appropriate objects are displayed for each individual. If you decide to implement this plan, we're happy to give you a copy of our index and the necessary python scripts. We have hundreds of LocalFS objects, so we spent some time constructing the index so the items appear in tabular format. Ricardo Anguiano <anguiano@codesourcery.com> wrote:

Greetings All,

Some stats on my (stale, and soon to be updated) setup:

Zope Version (Zope 2.4.1 (binary release, python 2.1, linux2-x86), python 2.1.0, linux2) Python Version 2.1 (#2, Jun 22 2001, 10:20:42) [GCC 2.7.2.3] System Platform linux2

I have a couple of objectives:

1. I want to restrict file access by user.

2. I want to serve objects from zope to accomplish objective #1 above, but I want the objects to be in the filesystem.

I want to be able to say, "The contents of directory X are available only to user Y."

I looked through the list of products in the "External Access" category and there were a couple of good candidates. The localfs listing was hard to find but it did turn up in a faq somewhere.

http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/ExternalFile http://www.zope.org/Members/MacGregor/ExtFile http://sourceforge.net/projects/localfs

Questions:

Can anyone recommend one of these products over the other? Will they let me do what I describe? Are there products which are a better fit? Is there an easier/better way?

My apologies if this has been answered in the mailing list recently. An archives search did not turn up anything.

Thanks in advance, -- Ricardo Anguiano http://www.codesourcery.com

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