[Zope-PAS] New to PAS

[Jeff Peterson]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> PAS makes no assumptions about where data exists.
>
> In most configurations, it creates a user object on the fly for each 
> request which isn't persisted anywhere (IUserFactory).  You can ideed 
> prompt for a login (by writing an IChallengePlugin or using an 
> existing one) and gather the username and password (by wrting an 
> IExtractionPlugin or using an existing one),  authenticate it against 
> the SQL database (by writing an IAuthenticationPlugin),  and assign 
> the user roles using data in the SQL database (IRolesPlugin).
This is good.

>
>
> I'm afraid there's nowhere to go from here except to read the existing 
> plugins and peruse the interfaces to get a sense of what hooks your 
> code needs to provide to be a PAS plugin.  I searched a bit to try to 
> find some example code that uses a relational database, but came up dry.
Yeah, thanks.  I had come to this conclusion too.  :)  Looks like I am 
in for some studying.. :)



>
> - C
>
> On Jun 27, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Jeff Peterson wrote:
>
>> Ok,
>>
>> After poking around PAS for a while I think I have a bit of a handle 
>> on it.
>> This seems to be built primarily for managing Zope users.  My 
>> solution needs to be able to manage a group of existing users not in 
>> Zope currently.  Is this something that can be done?  I know I can 
>> create SQL methods to get data but I am not sure I see how I can use 
>> the current data with this framework.  Can this be used without an 
>> actual userObject in the user folder?  Can I, for example, use the 
>> framework to prompt a login, gather the username and password, 
>> authenticate it against the sql and manage the roles without a 
>> userObject in the acl_users folder?  Or, if the former is true could 
>> they(the userObjects) be created on the fly, say on the first login, 
>> so that afterward they existed?
>>
>> Maybe I am way off base or am misunderstanding something.  Any 
>> direction would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --Jeffrey D Peterson
>>
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Jeffrey D Peterson

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