[Zope-CMF] Hierarchical user management

[Vincenzo Di Somma]

Kristian Nilsen wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've installed CMF with the purpose of managing a community of private 
> apartments, where there are about 7-10 users per apartment. I have 
> tried to find a solution for the apartments to manage their own users: 
> what I would like to do is to create one "apartment"-user for each of 
> the apartments (of course, the "apartment" user only has limited 
> privileges - perhaps the only thing he can do is add new users). Then 
> I'd like to limit each of the "apartment"-users to a certain number of 
> "resident"-users (say there are 7 persons living in that apartment; 
> I'd allow 7 resident-users plus e.g. 1 extra account if someone is in 
> the process of moving in or out).
>
> I would also like to give each of the apartments a Desktop common for 
> all the residents, and the possibility to share documents and have 
> discussions etc. that are private/accessible only to the residents.
>
> Has anyone implemented something like this, or know how I could solve 
> this? 

No, but it should be easy to set up  a local role on an apartemt and 
count how many people have that local role.
    Vincenzo.