[Zope-CMF] Dynamic Roles?

[Dieter Maurer]

John Waycott wrote at 2003-1-14 08:30 -0700:
 > I have started to set up a CMF/Plone Intranet site for the first time 
 > and wonder if roles can be determined dynamically or programatically?
 > 
 > For example, I add user metadata for "supervisor". Then, create two 
 > roles "supervisor" and "subordinate", and then set up some condition to 
 > indicate when these roles are true.
 > 
 > I know I can set up scripts in the workflow to look into the user 
 > metadata to determine who my supervisor is, but it seems more elegant 
 > and simpler to me to think of my supervisor and my list of subordinates 
 > as roles. It would also mean that once a dynamic role was set up, all of 
 > the CMF security machinery would then take advantage of it.
This is (probably) possible.

Maybe, NuxUserGroups uses something like that.
Check it out to see whether this is true.


Dieter