[Zope] Adding users in External method

[Theodore Patrick]

There is a default object in any user_folder called manage_users

It handles managing users in the user folders.

If you have manager privileges as a user, submitting the following form in
the user folder will add a user to the folder. You could process these in
DTML to remove the security. If using dtml, Be careful this is a security
hole if allow the users to be set as manager!!!

<!--#var standard_html_header-->

<FORM ACTION="acl_users/manage_users" METHOD="POST">
name<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="name" SIZE="20"><BR><BR>
password<INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD" NAME="password" SIZE="40"><BR><BR>
password2<INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD" NAME="confirm" SIZE="40"><BR><BR>
domains<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="domains:tokens" VALUE="" SIZE="40"><BR><BR>
Roles<SELECT NAME="roles:list" SIZE="5" MULTIPLE><OPTION
VALUE="User">User</SELECT><BR><BR>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="submit" VALUE="Add">

If you had the users info as variables you could set them = to the name
values of the fields above in dtml:

<newuserfolder>.acl_users.manage_users.name = namevalue
ect...
ect...
ect...

The syntax above is incorrect but I think you get the point. Just convert
the form to dtml.

Hope that helps.

----Original Message-----
From: Shaw, Howard [mailto:ShawH@sths.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 4:13 PM
To: 'Zope@zope.org'
Subject: [Zope] Adding users in External method


Ok, guys, you stumped me. Why are all the functions for adding Users to
UserFolders mangled? Do I really have to create a REQUEST object to add
users using an Extension class? I've got the code creating a directory,
a UserFolder in it, but how do I add the user?

If I need to create the REQUEST and pass it to manage_users and let it
toss it around internally, then could someone please show me how to
compose a REQUEST from within an External Method?

Thanks again,
Howard Shaw

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