[Zope] Authentication

[Martijn Pieters]

At 14:11 22/02/99 , julian@zereau.net wrote:
>I want to be able to:
>
>* Gather user login and password with a cute login screen of my own devising,
>not that messy HTTP authentication popup,
>
>* Check the username/password pair against the unix /etc/passwd database, and
>on success log the user into Zope as that username.
>
>Is this possible? If so, how?

Hmm.. this is certainly possible, if you extend Zope with your own
Userfolder/User objects. There is somewhere an example of this, called UserDB,
but I cannot find this right now..


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