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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Doesn't repoze already have a PAS plugin to do just that?

Ah, that's right: http://svn.agendaless.com/Products.whoopass. That 
doesn't mean it could be integrated better, though, for instance UI-wise...