[Zope-CMF] Help with user roles

[Ken Manheimer]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Adrian Madrid wrote:

> Sorry to repost this but I haven't figured out yet how
> to programatically find out if a user has certain
> role. I've received some help from Tres but I can't
> figure out how to use it in a script. Here goes what
> he shared.
> 
> > In a PythonScript which binds '_' to the DTML
> > namespace:
> > 
> >   # Get all roles defined in user folder.
> >   _.SecurityManager().getUser().getRoles()
> > 
> >   # Get all roles pertaining to an object, 'foo'
> >   _.SecurityGetUser().getRolesInContext( foo )
> 
> If anybody figured out how to tell if the auth user
> has certain role _please_ share the zen with me/us.

I must be missing something - how does a construct like:

  if 'Member' in _.SecurityGetUser().getRolesInContext(foo):
      ...

fall short for you?  (The same thing could be done for getRoles() - the
difference is whether you want the roles within the context of a
particular object or not...)

Ken Manheimer
klm@digicool.com