[Zope-CMF] Re: What is a member?

[Tom Dossis]

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2003-November/019794.html

 > Florent Guillaume wrote:
 >> What is it really to be a member of a portal ?
 >>
 >> 1) we have the Member role, but nowhere is it enforced that members 
must be Member.
 >
 > members represent users that are allowed to login to the portal and 
use features of the site that are not public. They might have different 
global or local Roles.
 >
 > The 'Member' Role represents a basic set of Permissions common 
members have for the site. Sometimes this Role represents the least 
common denominator and all members have the 'Member' Role. In other 
cases members with Roles like 'Reviewer' or 'Manager' don't have a 
'Member' Role. I would not enforce one policy.


That's pretty subtle.

I've added a third party role, 'Customer' to my CMF site.  I don't want 
this role to 'add portal content'.  I have member folder auto creation 
'on' for my standard 'Members'.  But this means my Customer's also have 
a folder object created for them - which I don't want.

Is it simply a case of 'patch' my CMF MembershipTool to only do this
  if user.has_role('Member') ... ?

Or should I be looking at it from a different perspective?

Regards
-Tom