[Zope-PTK] password policy change interface
Dan L. Pierson
dan@sol.control.com
Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:18:36 -0400 (EDT)
Bill Anderson writes:
> IMO, things dealing with authentication should _not_ be defined by the
> PTK. That is the realm of user management, which the PTK is not (AIUI)
> aimed at doing. It has the current default setup now mainly out of
> (AIUI) a need to have _something_ to do it.
I agree.
> get_User
> Used when you need the user object (useful or not?), and returns the
> object itsself. (What about SQL-Authed Users?)
get_User may not be needed. What is needed is something like
get_PTK_user_property_page(ick!). Yeah, I'm drawing from ZPatterns
here, but this is a place where the concept of different property sets
for different users of a common service makes a lot of sense.