[Zope] sync Zope userids with Apache userids?

[Philip Aylesworth]

I am new to zope but I read somewhere that you can let apache do your
authentication. Then you can use the AUTENTICATED_USER variable in zope. I
don't know if you can access groups, though.

Phil.

>Currently I have an apache server which has an authentication database
>containing some 50,000+ userids with associated groups. My question is how
>do I best (in this case quickest) enable Zope, which is connecting thru the
>apache server,  to use these userids. The userids are stored in a mysql DB,
>using this DB directly would be great but copying it into Zope regularly
>would be fine. Any ideas?


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Philip Aylesworth                   mailto:purple@mnsi.net