[Zope-dev] Re: [Plone-developers] PAULA: bringing Zope 3's authentication to Plone and beyond

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Florian Friesdorf wrote:
>> Hi *,
>>
>> within the scope of google summer of code I am integrating zope 3's PAU with
>> Plone's PAS and further enable (non-AT) content objects as source for users and
>> groups. All functionality is developed in pure zope3, the plone integration is
>> happening in a separate packages.
>>
>> All documents describing the project, as well as links to the code can be found
>> here:
>>
>> https://chaoflow.net/projects/gsoc2008/z3membrane-ldap
> 
> The one thing I am missing is: why? PAS works fine and covers a lot more
> functionality than PAU and there are more PAS plugins than PAU plugins.
> It's also perfectly possible to use non-AT content as source for users
> with PAS as well as tools such as b-org demonstrate.

Exactly. I don't mean to pee on anybody's parade here, but IMHO Wichert 
is right. To be constructive, I think it'd be much more interesting to 
investigate hooking Plone up to an external authentication mechanism 
such as repoze.who.