[Zope-dev] LOTS of roles?

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Paul Winkler wrote:

> more about our scenario:
>     
> * We must anticipate users at hundreds of locations
> 
> * there might be 10 or so users at each location
> 
> * permissions can be grouped pretty well into tasks, but are
>   specific to a location - permission to do a task at one
>   location must not mean permission at all locations.
>   To me this suggests several Roles per location, corresponding
>   to the grouped tasks at that location.
> 
> * each user might work from several different locations
> 
> * each user might need different permissions when working
>   at different locations
> 
> * We have multiple applications, not all in zope, so LDAP is looking
>   attractive.  

With locations, do you mean physical locations of the clients (i.e. 
IP-adresses), or the locations of objects inside zope (i.e. 
/department1, /department2 etc.)?

cheers,
oliver