[z3-five] Re: [Zope-dev] 2.9 goals

[Jim Fulton]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
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>> --On 2. Juli 2005 20:52:54 +0200 Martijn Faassen <faassen at infrae.com> 
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> I wonder whether it's possible to expose zope 3's authentication system
>>> to Zope 2, though that may be too much of a mismatch between security
>>> systems.
>>>
>>
>> Wasn't that a major goal of Jim for Z 2.9?
> 
> 
> Don't know if that is going to happen for Zope 2.9.
> 
> What I meant though is to expose the pluggable auth part of Zope 3 as 
> opposed to rewriting the zope 2 security system in terms of zope 3 
> security, which I believe Jim's goal is.

Zope 3's pluggable authentication utility is based (loosely) on
Zope 2's Pluggable Authentication Service.  Isn't that adequate?

I *would love* to get Zope 2 to use Zope 3's security architecture
for Zope 2.9.  I don't know if that is going to happen either. :/

Jim

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